Eyes to See

"Lushly illustrated reflections on the truth and meaning in great objects of art. An innovative approach to the spiritual in world art. Roger Lipsey invites the reader to a contemplative look, to a look of the intelligence of the heart. In the silence of words, each art work speaks to the viewer and teaches a gesture, a posture, a meditation. With "Eyes to See" a gaze is opened and discernment is refined as much as it allows itself to be touched, by truths eternally present at the heart of each work. "Eyes to See" then becomes a practical manual intended for the contemporary sensitized by the need to illuminate, within themselves, the chaotic world of art. Through its remarkable eclecticism, this collection of "icons"-to use the author's term here-takes the reader/viewer through eras and territories inspired by world history. The objective is not naively about knowledge but about seeing; because the eyes to see are those of the body and the soul as much as of the spirit which is not reduced to the intellect alone"-- Provided by publisher.

Roger Lipsey earned his PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts (New York University) in 1974. Art historian, biographer, and translator, he is the author and editor of a trilogy by and about the remarkable twentieth-century art historian and historian of religion Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Other major publications include An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art; Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton; and Hammarskjöld: A Life, acclaimed as the definitive biography of the great statesman. Roger lives in the lower Hudson Valley of New York State. His author website is rogerlipsey.net.