Our Distance from God

His argument unfolds over five case studies and spans four centuries: the architecture and artworks that glorified Louis XIV at Versailles in the seventeenth century, the interaction of libretto and music in Richard Wagner''s Ring of the Nibelung, Claude Monet''s enormous and resplendent paintings of water lilies mounted at the Orangerie of Paris in 1927, the inaugural performance in 1962 of Benjamin Britten''s War Requiem for the consecration of the new Anglican cathedral at Coventry, and Robert Wilson''s recent installation based on the Passion, 14 Stations."--BOOK JACKET.