Author Richard Harries
Publisher SPCK £14.99
Format pbk
ISBN 9780281083824 2020
As the sub-title informs us, this is a volume that seeks to describe the Christian faith through looking at thirty works of art, sequenced biblically from Creation to Revelation. Each picture has a very readable, engaging, and accessible commentary that draws the ‘God story’ onwards. The selection of pictures is eclectic across history and style and certainly provides a generous vibrant set of viewpoints that will appeal to many. It is perhaps a little disappointing that the physical design of the book (standard portrait paperback) reduces the ‘artiness’ of the title insofar as a third of the paintings are landscapes which are greatly reduced in size to fit (e.g. Da Vinci’s Last Supper is tiny). Perhaps an ‘arty’ square format would have provided a better-balanced space for this inspiring set of images and thoughts which in themselves have a lot to recommend.
P MARK PULLINGER
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