Article
Traversing Continents: Perspectives on Inculturation from a South Asian Artist, Angela Trindade
Tripod: Urbanization and Pastoral Responses in China
(2021)
Abstract
Rooted in her South Asian culture and motivated by her own faith convictions, Angela Trindade (1909-1980) contributions as an artist working on two continents (Asia and North America) during the mid-twentieth century provide visual evidence and valued insights for inculturation, demonstrating ways for Christianity to be enriched. She affirmed and advocated for the traditional role of artist in her culture as a translator and evangelizer of Christianity. She encouraged the incorporation of her culture’s unique aesthetic structures and sensibilities to convey the precepts of the Christian faith. And she conceived fresh iconographic forms and idioms in transmitting the Christian message. She articulated this approach as she traveled between India and the United States, through her exhibitions and lectures and also through her writings that appeared on the pages of Liturgical Arts, a journal circulating in the United States prior to and post Vatican II. Trindade’s strategies contributed to moving nascent ideas about inculturation and art forward among Catholic theologians, artists and architects, and clergy and laity in parishes and diocesan offices throughout the United States.
Keywords
- Inculturation,
- Art,
- Iconography,
- Women
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall 2021
Citation Information
Rebecca M Berru Davis. "Traversing Continents: Perspectives on Inculturation from a South Asian Artist, Angela Trindade" Tripod: Urbanization and Pastoral Responses in China Iss. 199 (2021) p. 65 - 82 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rebecca-berru-davis/12/