Robert Graham: The Great Bronze Doors for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

by Jack Miles, Peggy Fogelman, Noriko Fujinami

In 1998 sculptor Robert Graham was commissioned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to create the monumental bronze doors which would serve as entryway into the planned Cathedral of Our Lady of Los Angeles, the first major cathedral to be constructed in the United States in the new millennium. The Great Bronze doors were installed in May, 2002 and the Cathedral itself opens to the public in September, 2002. This book details the process of Grahams work and the iconography of the thirty-foot by thirty-foot, twenty-five ton bronze doors, and puts the work in a historical perspective.

128 pages, Hardcover

Published August 1, 2002

About the author

Jack Miles is an American author and scholar known for influential works on religion, literature, and culture. His essays and commentary have appeared in major publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for his book God: A Biography, which presents the biblical God as a literary character and has been translated into numerous languages. Miles later expanded this approach with Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God and God in the Qur'an, part of a broader exploration of religious texts as narrative traditions. He has also served as general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Religions and held editorial and academic positions across publishing and higher education.