Art, Truth and Time: Essays in Art

Art, Truth, and Time is a book which endeavours to show that artistic creation depends as much upon the body, as it does the soul, and the soul’s intelligent use of the body’s way of understanding. When there occurs a complete disjunction between the two, as occurs in much of contemporary art, art is stripped of its inherent beauty, its wholeness. In this book the author considers the nature of art from its earliest manifestations to the present day, endeavouring to show that its truth transcends time and place through the unity of soul and body and man’s awareness of this unity, not a barren unity, but a unity which is profoundly creative.

Reviews of Art, Truth and Time: Essays in Art

'This book is lighting from a clear sky.For one who has spent many years contemplating the vastaterra which is the landscape of contemporary art, the words of the writer – clear, lucid, limpid as a summer stream – offer hope and consolation.Here is a vision of art which is supremely sane, lit with the light of heaven which can be touched with our fingers, called by St Thomas Aquinas organa organorum, the tool of tools, then held close in the dizzy course of time so that truth might be known in our world.This book should be read by all those who care about the fate of art in our times.' — CHARLES STEPHENS