Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture
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The Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, or ARC, was founded in October 1961 by Marvin Halverson (b. 1913), an American Protestant theologian sometime of the Chicago Theological Seminary and the author of a 1951 booklet, Great Religious Paintings.[1] Its aims and program are based on the deep and complex relationship between religion and the arts. Its members have included W. H. Auden, Erich Fromm, Paul Tillich and Marguerite Yourcenar.
Alfred Barr, Jr., Founder-Director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, was ARC's founding president. Other Fellows of the Society included Joseph Campbell, Cleanth Brooks, William J. Conklin, Denis de Rougemont, Mircea Eliade, Erich Fromm, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip C. Johnson, Douglas M. Knight, Sidney Lanier, Marianne Moore, Robert Motherwell, Luther Noss, Frank Thompson, Robert Penn Warren and Amost N. Wilder.
ARC published a periodical "ARC Directions", sponsored public lectures, and commissioned arts projects.
The Society meets three times a year, normally in New York City, on the first Thursday, Friday, or Saturday of February, May, and November.
[edit] References
- ^ Halverson M., Great Religious Paintings, New York, H. N. Abrams, 1951.
- Finley Eversole, ‘Foundation for the Arts, Religion and Culture’, Theology Today, vol. 24, No. 3 (October 1967).
- Betty H. Meyer, The ARC Story: A Narrative Account of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture (New York, Association for Religion and Intellectual Life, 2003).
