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Protestants & pictures : religion, visual culture, and the age of American mass production / David Morgan.
Fine Arts Library N7903.7 .M67 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morgan, David, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Protestantism in art.
- Spirituality in art.
- Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- United States.
- History.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 417 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Other Title:
- Protestants and pictures
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- In this lavishly illustrated book, David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- a vast record of images in illustrated bibles, Christian almanacs, children's literature, popular religious books, charts, broadsides, Sunday school cards, illuminated devotional items, tracts, chromes, and engravings. His purpose is to explain the rise of these images, their appearance and subject matter, how they were understood by believers, the uses to which they were put, and what their relation was to technological innovations, commerce, and the cultural politics of Protestantism. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-406) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195130294
- OCLC:
- 40061302
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