Latter-day Saint art : a critical reader / edited by Amanda K. Beardsley and Mason Kamana Allred.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beardsley, Amanda K., editor.

Allred, Mason Kamana, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saint art.

Latter Day Saint architecture.

Latter Day Saint artists.

Latter Day Saint women artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (665 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Nearly every major religion has a significant artistic tradition, and religion's relationship with art - sometimes inspirational, sometimes antagonistic, often complex - has generated a substantial body of writing stretching back centuries. In its nearly two centuries of existence, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has produced, inspired, and provoked a wide range of artistic responses. Yet that artistic output has not generated a commensurate amount of critical examination. This book seeks to fill a substantial gap by providing a comprehensive examination of the visual art of the Latter-day Saints from the nineteenth century to the present. It defines Mormon art broadly as art by, for, or about Mormons, including work by artists who share a Latter-day Saint identity and by those with no personal attachment who have responded artistically to Mormonism.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Latter-day Saint Art a critical reader

Copyright

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. A Theology of Mormon Art

2. Temple Art Renewal, 2000-​2022

3. Moving Pictures: Subjectivity and Mormon Identity in Documentary Film

4. Establishing Zion: Identity and Communitas in Early Latter-​day Saint Art

5. The Public Image: How the World Learned to See Mormonism, from Cartoons to World's Fairs

6. Creating Something Extraordinary: Nineteenth-​Century Latter-​day Saint Women and Their Folk Art

7. Globetrotting Mormon Women Artists and the Art of Travel, 1900-​1950

8. Latter-day Saint Temple Design: Aspirations of Grandeur and Tempering Restraints

9. Success in Circuit: Brigham Young's Big Ten

10. Mormon Art and Architecture in Mexico: Between Mexico and the United States

11. Defining the Mormon Landscape: Photography and the Representation and Evolution of a Distinctive American Space

12. The Paris Art Mission

13. LDS Artists and the Art Students League of New York

14. George Dibble and Modernism in Utah

15. "Draw All Men unto Him": The Mormon Art and Belief Movement

16. Race and Latter-​day Saint Art

17. Native Americans, Mormonism, and Art

18. The Piety of Perspective: Bodies, Media, and Cinematic Experience in Latter-​day Saint Film, 1970-​2020

19. Latter-​day Saint Feminism and Art

20. "Who Did I Leave Out and Should Have Included?": The History and Influence of the International Art Competitions at the Church History Museum

21. Being Relevant: On the BYU Department of Art in the Twenty-​First Century

22. Toward a Latter-​day Saint Contemporary Art

An Afterword: A Culture (and its Artifacts) in Search of Self

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 22, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197632536

019763253X

9780197632512

0197632513

9780197632529

0197632521

OCLC:

1449548457