Abstract:
In Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis (2002) Peter J. Schakel, a long-time Lewis devotee, dedicates a whole chapter to Lewis's interest in 'Art, Architecture and Clothing.' Mustering such evidence as there is in the life and the works, Schakel does not really succeed in showing Lewis to have been more than a mediocre follower of these arts. However, he makes one point with which I am strongly in sympathy: 'The most important uses of art in the Chronicles occur in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.' ....
