Table of Contents 

• • 1 Overture 21
  • 2 A history of modern art 35
  • 3 Enrique Martinez Celaya’s Thing and deception : the artistic practice of belief 51
  • 4 Embodying transcendence : material spirituality in contemporary art 71
  • 5 Art criticism 109
  • 6 Art, liturgy, and the church 133
  • Conclusion The search for Christian art and the Christian artist 153
  • Notes 167
  • Index 187