Per il fondatore di Scientology, se la tecnica mette in pericolo la trasmissione del messaggio, l’artista dovrebbe cambiare la tecnica piuttosto che il messaggio.
Religion and arts
L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 3. Art as Communication
The founder of Scientology believed that, if the technique endangers the transmission of the message, the artist should change the technique rather than the message.
Hubbard, Scientology e le arti figurative. 2. Il mito dell’artista depravato
Per tutta una cultura, “essere artisti si identificava con l’essere amorali, depravati, oziosi e dediti al bere”. Quella cultura, secondo Hubbard, sbagliava.
L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 2. The Myth of the Loose-Moraled Artist
For a certain culture, being a good artist came to be “commonly identified with being loose-moraled, wicked, idle, and drunken.” That culture, Hubbard believed, was wrong.
Hubbard, Scientology e le arti figurative. 1. La mente estetica
Il fondatore di Scientology ha dedicato molta attenzione all’estetica. I suoi testi sul tema rimangono però poco noti.
L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology, and the Visual Arts. 1. The Aesthetic Mind
The founder of Scientology devoted much attention to aesthetics. However, his texts on the subject remain little-known.
Ernest de Gengenbach: Satanist, (Pseudo-)Surrealist, Roman Catholic
Five books by French scholar Christophe Stener rediscover a forgotten but not irrelevant character of 20th-century literature and esotericism.
Čiurlionis, Esotericism, and Theosophy. 3. “Theosophical” Symbols
Čiurlionis: the Lithuanian painter’s works include several symbolic references that may be attributed to Theosophical influences, but the relation remains conjectural.
Čiurlionis, Esotericism, and Theosophy. 2. The Stabrowski-Theosophy Connection
Čiurlionis was a friend and pupil of Polish symbolist painter Kazimierz Stabrowski, a prominent Theosophist, and also read the works of Flammarion, another Theosophist.
Čiurlionis, Esotericism, and Theosophy 1. Insights from an International Conference
Was Čiurlionis, the great Lithuanian painter, influenced by the ideas of the Theosophical Society? The jury is still out.