Addicted to Mediocrity

An important little book, rapidly readable. I agree with Sarah Wolfe's review: The topic definitely deserves more robust, less repetitive treatment, and the book needs a rewrite with a broader swath of examples. After all, any book that takes aim at mediocrity in the arts had better be excellent its......more

Franky writes in a flamboyant, easy to ready, captivating fashion. Franky describes the job of Christians in much the same fashion as John Comer does in Garden City. We are Gods images on earth and given the job to continue the work of culture building. If you are looking for an easy read that gives......more

Almost fantastic, but overlooks some seriously vital insights on the aftermath of the reformation on art history (seemed to write as though reformed thought has remained exactly the same as it was 500 yrs ago, and didn't take reformers' cultural/historical context into account), as well as containin......more

An important message packed into a beautifully short package, however, this only gets 3 stars for a few reasons: 1) important message, but DUH. maybe it's not so obvious to some people, but for me the whole thing was a "no duh" experience. 2) i didn't feel like there were many solutions offered, and t......more

Good book - could have been a blog post that goes like this. Christian, do good art stuff, please. *Christian makes argument and says art needs to be evangelistic or something* W R O N G, art is good, creativity is good, good art in the world by a Christian much needed, Christian art right now is MID.......more