Thomism, Creativity, and the Arts: Jacques and Raïssa Maritain

Sessions:

• Alice Ramos
  Jacques Maritain on the Artist’s Vision and Moral Character
• Fr. Brad Elliot, O.P.
  Art and Imitation: The Role of Nature in the Human Artistic Act
• Jan Bentz
  Creative Intuition and Being in Art: Maritain and Gilson on Beauty
• James Matthew Wilson
  Form as ‘Ontological Secret’
• Katja Frimberger
  Learning to just be there: Film as Public Pedagogy
• Fr. Albert Robertson, O.P.
  Raïssa Maritain at Prayer: Suffering, Virtue, and Religious and Creative Perception
• Emma Mason
  ’Nocturnal navigations’: Raïssa Maritain’s poetic and mystical gifts
• Christopher Grey
  The Underscore of Maritain’s Poetics
• Gregory Kerr
  Imitation and Distortion: Jacques Maritain and Flannery O’Connor and the Power of the Story
• Margarita Mooney Clayton
  Imitation and Creativity: Music as Formative and Expressive
• Sir James MacMillan
  Setting the words of the Mass to music in the secular environment of our time: a Catholic composer’s experience

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Sponsored by:

• The Margaret Beaufort Institute
• Blackfriars Hall, Oxford
• The Scala Foundation
• The Catholic Sacred Music Project
• Thomistic Institute