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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David Morgan , Sally M. PromeyPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780520225220ISBN 10: 0520225228 Pages: 441 Publication Date: 16 June 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsReviewsAt last, a book that overturns the long-standing assumption that there has been little or no visual culture in American religious practice, Editors Morgan and Promey, along with twelve other authors, prove their case brilliantly....This book is a benchmark. - Elizabeth Johns, author of American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life These essays are unusually strong, sophisticated, mature, and insightful. They are remarkably readable, not merely for art historians but also for a broadly interested and intelligent audience. The result is a truly fascinating collection whose essays touch on a wide range of important topics in the two-hundred-year experience of both American art and American religion. - Jon Butler, editor of Religion in American History: A Reader Author InformationDavid Morgan holds the Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts in Christ College, Valparaiso University. He is the author of Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images (California, 1998) and Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production (1999). Sally M. Promey is Professor of American Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library (1999) and Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism (1993). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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