Thursday, April 13, 7 p.m. VEROSTKO CENTER FOR THE ARTS P R E S E N T S : THOMAS HIBBS Trauma, Sorrow, and Beauty: Maritain and Rouault on Art THOMAS HIBBS T homas Hibbs is currently the J. Newton Rayzor Sr. Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, where he is also Dean Emeritus. Hibbs has published more than 30 scholarly articles and seven scholarly books, including three on the thought of Thomas Aquinas. He has also published two books on film and co-authored a book, Soliloquies , with the Japanese-American artist, Makoto Fujimura. A new book, Theology of Creation , is set to be published in August of 2023 by Notre Dame Press. He also has a book on Justice as Solidarity under contract with Word on Fire publications. Hibbs has published widely in the popular press, with more than 100 reviews and discussion articles on film, theater, art, and higher education in a variety of publications including First Things, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Atlantis, The Wall Street Journal , and National Review . He writes regularly for The Dallas Morning News I n his work on the crisis of the visible in contemporary culture, the philosopher Jean-Luc Marion argues that images typically operate as idols rather than icons. The images we encounter are “proportionate to the expectation of desire.” Such a culture excludes images that would engage us so as to transform our desires and lead us out of ourselves to transcendence. We need more than simply a reorientation of our vision. The new pedagogy of images cannot be straightforward or initially affirmative, since it must make us aware of our disorders, sorrows, and traumas. It will offer hope not through facile transcendence but through otherwise hidden paths at the margins of mainstream civilization. In the philosophy of art of Jacques Maritain and the art of his friend Georges Rouault, images take on the evils and afflictions of this world, its manifold traumas and sorrows, and trace a path toward beauty, gratitude, and joy. That Ye May Love One Another by Georges Rouault 10824–3/2023 J O H N D E E L Y https://stvincent-edu.zoom.us/j/83535142596?pwd=Z2dXcGUrWXhuYmxIOXZjUGxCR3JaUT09