Off-Modern Catholic Aesthetics. Rethinking the Role of Religion in 20th Century Art and Architecture KU Leuven
The PhD thesis centres on analysing connections between aesthetic modernism and traditional Catholic ideas. In terms of scope it examines transnational intellectual transfers between Europe and the US, primarily between 1945 and 1970. To do so, methodological tools derived from intellectual history are employed to observe how concepts which were mobilised from different disciplines sought to maintain a sacred conception of aesthetics within a ...