Revisioning : critical methods of seeing Christianity in the history of art / edited by James Romaine and Linda Stratford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romaine, James, editor.

Stratford, Linda, editor.

Series:

Art for faith's sake series.

Art for faith's sake series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--History--Methodology.

Art.

Christian art and symbolism--History.

Christian art and symbolism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2013]

Summary:

ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art examines the application of art historical methods to the history of Christianity and art. As methods of art history have become more interdisciplinary, there has been a notable emergence of discussions of religion in art history as well as related fields such as visual culture and theology. This book represents the first critical examination of scholarly methodologies applied to the study of Christian subjects, themes, and contexts in art. ReVisioning contains original work from a range of scholars, each of whom has addressed the question, in regard to a well-known work of art or body of work, How have particular methods of art history been applied, and with what effect? The study moves from the third century to the present, providing extensive treatment and analysis of art historical methods applied to the history of Christianity and art.

Contents:

Expanding the discourse on Christianity in the history of art / James Romaine

Methodological issues from the fields of art history, visual culture, and theology / Linda Stratford

Pt. I. Methodological issues of iconography in early Christian and medieval art. Iconographic structure: recognizing the resurrected Jesus on the Vatican Jonah Sarcophagus / Linda Møskeland Fuchs

Icon as theology: the Byzantine Virgin of Predestination / Matthew J. Milliner

Marginalia or eschatological iconography?: providence and plenitude in the imagery of abundance at Orvieto Cathedral / Rachel Hostetter Smith

Iconography of sign: a semiotic reading of the Arma Christi / Heather Madar

Hybridizing iconography: The Miraculous Mass of St. Gregory featherwork from the Colegio de San José de los Naturales in Mexico City / Elena Fitzpatrick Sifford

Pt. II. Methodological issues of reading theology in renaissance and baroque art. Reading hermeneutic space: pictorial and spiritual transformation in the Brancacci Chapel / Chloë Reddaway

Reading theological place: Joachim Patinir's Saint Jerome in the Desert as devotional pilgrimage / Matthew Sweet Vanderpoel

Reading theological context: a Marian interpretation of Michelangelo's Roman Pieta / Elizabeth Lev

Reading visual rhetoric: strategies of piety and propaganda in Lucas Cranach the Elder's Passional Christi und Antichristi / Bobbi Dykema

Reading devotion: Counter-Reformation iconography and meaning in Gregorio Fernández's Christo yacente of El Pardo / Ilenia Colón Mendoza

Pt. III. Methodological issues of historical-religious context in nineteenth- twentieth-, and twenty-first century art. Historicism and scenes of "The passion" in nineteenth-century French romantic painting / Joyce C. Polistena

Consuming Christ: Henry Ossawa Tanner's Biblical paintings and nineteenth-century American commerce / Kristin A. Schwain

Figuring redemption: Christianity and modernity in Max Beckmann's Resurrections / Amy K. Hamlin

Embodiment as sacrament: Francis Bacon's postwar horror / Rina Arya

Media, mimesis, and sacrifice: Paul Pfeiffer's contemporary Christological lens / Isabelle Loring Wallace.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781630871826

1630871826