{"product_id":"angelic-mistakes-the-art-of-thomas-merton-9781590303139","title":"Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the last decade of his life  while living as a hermit-monk in dialogue with the world  Thomas Merton created a body of visual art that has remained largely unknown and little studied in the nearly forty years since his death. With this book  Mertons art at last moves out of the shadows to be appreciated for what it is: a revealing expression of his state of mind and heart in the 1960s  and a visual correlative to his mature works of spiritual writing such as New Seeds of Contemplation and Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander. Roger Lipsey provides a fascinating analysis of the simple and striking images and their significance in Mertons journey. He find in them resonances with Asian calligraphy and American abstract expressionism  and relates them to the influence of Mertons wide circle of friends  which included such diverse figures as the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain  the poet Czeslaw Milosz  the Zen scholar D. T. Suzuki  and the artist Ad Reinhardtamong many others.  But the centerpiece of the book is the art itself  presented in a portfolio of thirty-four representative pieces that reflect the changing themes and methods of Mertons work. Each is accompanied by selections from his writings from the 1960s that reflect the inward and outward territories Merton was exploring in the period when these remarkable images were created.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647613526069,"sku":"ByrdShop_159030313X","price":31.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781590303139.jpg?v=1781695771","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/angelic-mistakes-the-art-of-thomas-merton-9781590303139","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}