Beauty (and the Banana): A Theopoetic Aesthetic - Paperback

by Brian C. Nixon (Author), Joseph M. Holden (Foreword by)

What is it that makes something beautiful? Is beauty solely in the eye of the beholder, or something deeper, more significant? In Beauty (and the Banana), Nixon writes as an introductory book for Christian leaders, providing the reader an overview of the historical, hermeneutical, and heuristic considerations of beauty. Using the artwork Comedian (a banana taped to a wall) by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan as a springboard, Nixon addresses various fundamental factors of beauty--ontology (being), teleology (form and understanding), and immutability (transcendence and eternality). Integrating poetry and classical ideals throughout, Beauty (and the Banana)'s response to the above questions may surprise all who read--beauty is more than meets the eye.

Author Biography

Brian C. Nixon is a writer, artist, musician, and educator. He's a graduate of California State University, Stanislaus (BA), Trinity Seminary (MA), Veritas Seminary (MA), and is a Fellow at Oxford Graduate School (DPhil). Married with three grown children, his writing interests yearn to inspire the Christian imagination, covering three broad philosophical areas--truth, beauty, and goodness, often summarized as transcendentals, or in a modern context, theopoetics.