What is Protestant art? / by Andrew T. Coates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coates, Andrew T., author.

Series:

Brill research perspectives. Religion and the arts ; 1.2 (2017)

Brill Research Perspectives. Religion and the arts ; issue 1.2 (2017)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and religion.

Protestantism--History.

Protestantism.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 141 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimile, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

What is Protestant Art?' presents an introduction to Protestant visual culture from the Reformation to the present. Examining historical images as evidence of changing practices and attitudes, Andrew T. Coates explores three major themes in the history of Protestant visual culture: 1) the religious work of images, 2) the relationship between word and image, 3) the power of the Bible and its visual representation. The book analyses images such as prints, paintings, maps of the 'Holy Land,' and Bible illustrations to demonstrate the broad range of images that could be classified as Protestant 'art.' This work argues that the variety of images and visual practices throughout Protestant history might better be described by the term 'visual culture' than 'art.'

Contents:

Part 1 Images and Iconoclasm in Early Protestantism p. 31

Reforming Images during the Reformation p. 31

Destroying Images during the Reformation: Early Protestant Iconoclasm p. 34

Rethinking Images during the Reformation: Three Protestant Theologians' Views of Images p. 37

New Images for a New Christianity: Early Protestant Artists p. 44

Images in the English Reformation p. 49

Conclusion: Early Themes in Protestant Visual Culture p. 55

Part 2 Visualizing the Word of God p. 57

Maps in Early English Bibles p. 60

Illustrating the 1611 King fames Bible p. 64

Colonial Maps in Eighteenth-Century Bibles p. 67

Awash in a Sea of Images: Nineteenth-Century Bible Illustration p. 69

Nineteenth-Century Protestant Quests for the 'Holy Land' p. 78

Picturing Bibles in the Nineteenth-Century American Home p. 83

Part 3 Protestant Mass Culture and Its Alternatives in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries p. 88

Mass Culture and Images in Nineteenth-Century Evangelicalism p. 90

An Alternative to Mass-produced Evangelical Images: Shaker Devotional Paintings p. 104

Mass Production in the End Times: Fundamentalist Bible Charts in the Early Twentieth Century p. 108

Rejecting Christian Mass Culture: Protestant Liberalism and the Invention of "Modern Art" p. 119

Conclusion: Mass Culture and the Fault Lines of Protestantism p. 121

Part 4 Directions for the Study of Protestant Visual Culture p. 122

The Value of Visual Culture for the Study of Protestant Images: A Contemporary Case Study p. 123

Visual Culture and the Fissures of Protestantism: Futures for Protestant Visual Studies p. 126

Conclusions: Protestant Visual Culture in the Digital Age p. 130.

Notes:

"Simultaneously published as issue 1.2 (2017) of Brill research perspectives in religion and the arts"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-141).

ISBN:

9004371176

9789004371170

OCLC:

1031916513