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No 53
ACE Awards 2007, panel reports
Interview with Meryl Doney of Wallspace
Exhibition reviews of Picturing the Bible (S Brent Plate), The First Emperor (Brian Cuthbertson), Oona Grimes (Jonathan Evens), Jacques Le Chevallier (Inge Linder-Gaillard), Michael Sandle (Tom Devonshire Jones)
Book reviews of Art as Theology (Charles Miller), Unwanted Beauty & Abstraction and the Holocaust (Juliet Steyn)
Letter from New York, Tom Miller
No 52
Report from the ACE International conference 2007
Whose Temple? by Peter Doll
Exhibition reviews of Cranach (Nicholas Cranfield), Millais (Graham Howes), Documenta 12 (Manfred Richter), Philippe de Champaigne (Antony Copley), Edmund de Waal (Jeremy Morris).
Book reviews of Where the Sea Meets the Sky, Theological Aesthetics, Tin Tabernacles, Anglican Church Building in London 1915-1946, Wales' Best One Hundred Churches
DVD review of Into Greater Silence
Obituary, Doug Adams
Autumn exhibition round up
No 51
Charles Pickstone on The Art of Blasphemy
Exhibition reviews of Moore and Mythology (Margaret Garlake), Hussey's Legacy (Tom Devonshire Jones) and Light (Paul Bayley).
Interview with David Hawkins, by Jonathan Evens
John Pridmore on Hackney Free and Parochial Secondary School, The Jerusalem Space
Book reviews of Christian Art, and Contemporary Church Architecture
No 50
Contemporary art interview — Stuart Evans, collector
50th issue Editorial
Anselm Keifer's Palm Sunday
Modern Biblical art in New York
Glimpses of Heaven & God of Enchantment: books reviewed
Eamon Duffy on Pictures and Popery
Maurice Denis and the Ateliers d'Art Sacré
No 49
Jonathan Evens on the Art of Contemplation
Eamon Duffy reviews 'Holbein in England'
John Drury on 'Velázquez'
Sister Corita comes to London
Kieth Ward and Peter Francis review two new books on film
Pugin and liturgical design
The love of Beauty and the art of the sublime: books reviewed
Victor de Waal remembers Keith Murray
No 48 October 2006
Jonathan Cate on Yoko Ono's poetic practice
Project report of Alison Watt's winning painting and an ACE seminar in Edinburgh
Humour et Critique dans l'art d'aujourd'hiu — Jonathan Evens
Adam Elsheimer — Harry Hare
Pierre Klossowski — Charles Pickstone
An appreciation of Tom Devonshire Jones
Book reviews by Bill Jacobs (‘The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation’), David Stancliffe (‘God's House is Our House’), Tom Devonshire Jones (‘British Architectural Theory’), John Watson (‘Prayer and Power in Byzantine and Papal Imagery’) and Paul Bayley (Riddled with Light’)
No 47 July 2006
Laura Moffatt interviews Matt Stokes
The Round Church — Nigel Foxell
A 'Cross for England' — Jean Lamb
Artists' reflections — Christine Watson
Kandinsky's Path — Meryl Doney
Constables religious landscapes — Stephen Laird
Word into Art — Saeed Taji Farouky
Sacred Iconography — Roy Exley
Charlie Millar 'All Flesh is Grass' — Michael Wimshurst
George Jack — Jonathan Evens
Book reviews by Nicholas Cranfield, Graham Howes, John Methuen and Joseph Masheck.
No 46 Apr 2006
Bishop Bell's 1949 sermon
Cathedral Treasures — Ann Wickham
British Museum & World Religions — Rowena Loverance
Gilbert & George — Paul Bayley
Dan Flavin — Christopher Jordan
Rowan Williams and excess — Charles Miller
The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West — +Richard Chartres
No 45 Jan 2006
ACE Awards — Results and Reports
Part II Keith Walker's experience of commissioning church art
John Kirby — Nicholas Cranfield
Damien Hirst — Laura Moffatt
Treloar's The Romanesque Arch
Rachel Whiteread — Kevin Scott
Book reviews by Graham Howes, Brian Leathard, Charles Miller, Steve Nolan, and Stephen J Brown.
No 44 Oct 2005
Impressions and comparisons from New York
Part I Keith Walker's experience of commissioning church art
Sergei Chepik — Michelle Brown
Book reviews by Mary Charles-Murray, David Jasper and Christoper Hamilton
No 43 Jul 2005
Presence — Rowan Williams
Landscape and Atonement — Stephen Laird
Roland Biermann — David Jasper
Reports from Hereford, York and Chester Cathedrals.
No 42 Apr 2005
The English Altar (part II) — David Stancliffe
Caravaggio — Samuel Klein
John Latham — Laura Moffatt
'Seeing is Believing' — Paul Bayley
No 41 Jan 2005
The English Altar — David Stancliffe
The Chaplaincy to the Arts — David Jasper
King's College Chapel —Peter Newby
Steve Nolan on Film
No. 40 Oct 2004
Graham Hudson — Christopher Frayling
Heaven and Earth’ — Lucy Collard
Rochester Cathedral’s Murals
Liverpool Cathedral’s ‘Trans mittere’ — Laura Moffatt
Fenwick Lawson
No. 39 Jul 2004
Leslie Griffiths on Mark Cazalet
When a Cathedral Burns … — Rosemary Crumlin
Rose Finn-Kelcey’s ‘Angel’
Film — 21 Grams
A Meditation on the Meeting of Lovers — Esther D. Reed
Ian McKillop’s Gloucester Cathedral altarpiece
Brancusi and the Erotics of Space — Charles Pickstone
No. 38 Apr 2004
An Early Medieval Easter Meditation — Michelle P. Brown
Embroidery — Judith Peacock
Paul Nash — Susan Compton
Trevor Appleton — Paul Bayley
‘Presence’ — Nicholas Cranfield
No. 37 Jan 2004
Judges’ reports on the ACE Awards 2003
‘Presence’ — Meryl Doney
Ghislaine Howard — Michael Howard
Building Bridges — The Bishop of London
Rego’s ‘Margaret and David’
Patrick Sherry’s ‘Spirit and Beauty’
No. 36 Oct 2003
Pistoletto’s ‘Space for Meditation’ — Inge Linder-Gaillard
A mirror on Andrei Tarkovsky — Jann Cather Weaver
Pat Negri on Icons
No. 35 Jul 2003
John Piper’s Centenary Year — Stephen Laird
Romania’s Monasteries — Deborah Cazalet
David Martin’s ‘Christian Language’
Letters — David Jasper’s response to Jeremy Begbie
No. 34 Apr 2003
The Artist in Residence at Gloucester Cathedral — Norman Chatfield
The Artist as Missionary — Martyn Rogers
Michele Coxon and the Green Christ — John Davies
Mo Enright’s ‘Easter Story’ — George T. Noszlopy
Letters — Jeremy Begbie replies to David Jasper’s review
No. 33 Jan 2003
An Invasion of Icons? — Andrew Louth
Madonna of the Veil — Noel White
Ars Gratia Artis — Michael Hampel
Winitha Fernando
Graham Sutherland
Sounding the Depths: Theology Through the Arts — David Jasper
No. 32 Oct 2002
Barnett Newman deconstructed — Charles Pickstone
Art & Sacred Places
John de Wit
No. 31 Jul 2002
Hijacking the Holy: The use and abuse of spiritual language and imagery in advertising — Vicki
Cosstick
Housing Art in Church — Katherine Rumens
‘Faith and Beauty: A Theological Aesthetic’ — Stephen Tucker
‘The Visual Arts and the Novels of Iris Murdoch’ — Martin Coombs
‘Image and Idol’ — Andrew Spira
No. 30 Mar 2002
Nicholas Mynheer’s ‘Polyptych’ — Nicholas Gendle
The 2002 Liddon Lectures — Tom Devonshire Jones
No. 29 Jan 2002
Edward Robinson Profiled — John D Davies
Artistic freedom and episcopal license — Sheila Cameron
David Backhouse’s ‘Pilgrim’ ‘The Arts in your Church’ — Francis
A R Minay
‘Christopher LeBrun’ — Charles Pickstone
No. 28 Oct 2001
The Dandenong Project — Patrick Negri
Icon or Idol? A Development in Early Christianity — Robin M Jensen
The Day of the Dead — Linnea Wren
Art in Sacred Spaces — Julia Porter Pryce interviewed by Anne Gordon
The Blake Prize — Rosemary Crumlin
ACE 2001 Coventry Conference — Maureen Lahiff
No. 27 Jul 2001
Florence Cathedral — Timothy Verdon
Piety in Prints — Stephen Laird
Stanley Spencer — Julian Bell
‘Theology and the Arts’ — Richard Harries
‘Buddha and Christ’ — George Pattison
No. 26 Apr 2001
Exploring Common Ground; Canon Bill Hall’s Work in the Visual Arts — Robert Cooper
Marc Couturier’s ‘Cross’ — Inge Linder Gaillard
‘The Sculpture of Leon Underwood’ — Tom Devonshire Jones
Seeking Salvation; Hans Feibusch and Blake — Gaynor Williams
No. 25 Jan 2001
Finding the Right Niche — Nick Bury
Frannk Burch Brown Profiled — Charles Pickstone
Art 2000; Projects in Sacred Places — Keith Elford and Lori Mackellar
‘You form a picture’ — Mark Sander
No. 24 Oct 2000
Art and Christianity 2000 — Simon Morley
Coventry Cathedral — Richard McLaren
John Miller — Stephen Laird
‘Understanding Early Christian Art’ — Peter Newby
‘Jacob Epstein’ — Helen de Borchgrave
No. 23 Jul 2000
The Logic of God — Mary Charles-Murray
Maurice Cockriill — Stephen Laird
‘The Religious Paintings of Sir Stanley Spencer’ — Susanna Avery-Quash
Emily Young Profiled
‘Theology and Modern Irish Art’ — Charles Pickstone
No. 22 Apr 2000
The Diary of a Chaplain to the Arts — Katharine Rumens
Art in the digital age; a prophetic critique — Deborah J Haynes
‘Seeing Salvation’ — Gabriele Finaldi
No. 21 Jan 2000
Cathedrals at Millennium — various authors
Botticelli’s Mystic Nativity
Mark Wallinger’s ‘Ecce Homo’ — Anna Moszynska
Doris Salcedo in Liverpool Cathedral
‘Painting the Word’ — Stuart Currie
No. 20 Oct 1999
Art on the Hop — Patrick Reyntiens
The Drawings of Stanley Spencer — Meredith Etherington-Smith
James Lee Byars’ White Mass as Eschatological Art — Richard McLaren
Jill Sim’s Millennium Christ
When we reach heaven — Henry Mayr-Harting
No. 19 Jul 1999
Art and the Idea of Prophecy — Mary Charles-Murray
‘The Passion of Mary’ — Jean Lamb
Terry Dempsey SJ Profiled — Joe Muehlenkamp
Neil MacGregor Profiled — Tom Devonshire Jones
No. 18 Apr 1999
New Art in Churches and Cathedrals — Tom Devonshire Jones
‘Elisabeth Frink’ — Sally Redway
Art in Northern Churches — Jane Kashouris
No. 17 Jan 1999
William Blake — Richard Humphreys
Kitty North — Tom Devonshire Jones
Lalibela and Beyond — Charlie Millar
No. 16 Oct 1998
Chagall — Andrew Bowden and Charles Pickstone
Hans Feibusch — Paul Foster
Images and Relics — John Dillenberger
‘Eric Gill’ — Ben Whitworth
Harriet Frazer’s ‘The Art of Remembering’
No. 15 Jul 1998
The Theological Implications of Christian Boltanski’s Art — Mark Cazalet
Beyond Belief in Melbourne — Charles Pickstone
‘Images of Truth’ — Graham Howes
No. 14 Apr 1998
Gormley’s ‘Space’ — Keith Walker and Simon Morley
George Pattison’s ‘Art, Modernity and Faith’ — Judith Bumpus
No. 13 Jan 1998
Stanley Spencer — Michael Compton
Stephen Cox — Tim Llewellyn
Faith and Film — Stephen Brown
Mary Charles-Murray on Don Cupitt
No. 12 Oct 1997
Faith and Disfigurement; The paintings of George Gittoes — Rod Pattenden
The Angel of History — Horst Schwebel
‘A Hidden wholeness’ — David Broad
‘StART HERE’ — Gloria Crittenden
No. 11 Jul 1997
Early Christianity and Art — Alan Walker
‘The Kingdom’ — Rupert Martin
No. 10 Apr 1997
John Piper’s Religious Works — Stephen Laird
Norman Adams
No. 9 Jan 1997
Roy de Maistre — Tom Devonshire Jones
Art in Eight Northern Churches — Mark Cazalet
Tate Forum — Judith Peacock
No. 8 Oct 1996
Keith Walker’s ‘Images and Idols’ — Graham Howes
Rachel Whiteread — Tom Devonshire Jones
No. 7 Jul 1996
Fenwick Lawson — Tom Devonshire Jones
No. 6 Apr 1996
Contemporary Paintings for Liverpool Cathedral
Michael Sadgrove’s ‘A Picture of Faith’ — Shirley Dyer
No. 5 Jan 1996
The Cathedral and the Artist — Tom Devonshire Jones
Encuentro de Artistas — Mark Oakley
Richard Harries’ ‘A Gallery of Reflections’ — Tom Devonshire Jones
No. 4 Oct 1995
Report of ACE Conference in California ‘ Charles Pickstone
OCB Revisited — Tom Devonshire Jones
James Smetham’s drawings
No. 3 Jul 1995
The Sculpture Commission at St Nicholas’s Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne — Andrew
Greg
ACE Lectures — Andres Spira
No. 2 Apr 1995
The Senses Five
The Sound of the Romanesque
The AAEs
No. 1 Jan 1995
Willem de Kooning
Trafalgar Square