Another book I've been reading on holiday is Modern Art and the Death of a Culture by Hans Rookmaaker. I didn't really have a good definition of the role of an artist, particularly a Christian artist. Trying this one on for size:
"The artist, with his special gifts, has a specific task, a very special and wonderful calling. It is not to play the prophet, nor to be a teacher, nor to be a preacher, nor to evangelize. It is to make life better, more worthwhile, to create the sound, the shape, the tale, the decoration, the environment that is meaningful and lovely and a joy to mankind." (Rookmaaker, p. 243)
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