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Joseph Masheck received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art, of the College Art Association, in 2018. He is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, having also taught at Columbia and Harvard, USA.
Masheck brilliantly corrects two blind spots regarding ‘religion’ in the history of modern art—first, by illuminating how Jewish and Christian conceptualities shaped the work of four pivotal modernists and, second, by exploring these as theological rather than (mis)attributing them to occultist spiritualities. The resulting account opens the history of modernism into lines of inquiry that art scholars have not yet adequately accounted for. -- Jonathan A. Anderson * Artforum * In this rich and beautifully written book Masheck argues for the serious place of religion as opposed to the vague term spirituality in four founding artists of abstraction. Against the complex background of European culture the central place of Christian and Jewish theology and liturgy from icon to the writings of Karl Barth is affirmed and luminously presented. An intellectual and aesthetic feast. * The Revd Canon David Jasper, Emeritus Professor of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow, UK *
