Visual Piety

A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images

AvDavid Morgan

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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This fascinating study of devotional images traces their historical links to important strains of American culture. David Morgan demonstrates how popular visual images--from Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ" to velvet renditions of DaVinci's "Last Supper" to illustrations on prayer cards--have assumed central roles in contemporary American lives and communities. Morgan's history of popular religious images ranges from the late Middle Ages to the present day and analyzes what he calls "visual piety," or the belief that images convey. Rather than isolating popular icons from their social contexts or regarding them as merely illustrative of theological ideas, Morgan situates both Protestant and Catholic art within the domain of devotional practice, ritual, personal narrative, and the sacred space of the home. In addition, he examines how popular icons have been rooted in social concerns ranging from control of human passions to notions of gender, creedal orthodoxy, and friendship. Also discussed is the coupling of images with texts in the attempt to control meanings and to establish markers for one's community and belief.Drawing from the fields of music, sociology, theology, philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics,Visual Piety is the first book to bring to specialist and lay reader alike an understanding of religious imagery's place in the social formation and maintenance of everyday American life.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-09-25
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:283
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520219328

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David Morgan is Associate Professor of Art History at Valparaiso University and the editor of Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman (1996).

Innehållsförteckning

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSPREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONCONSTRUCTIVISM AND THE HISTORY OF VISUAL CULTUREMaterial Things and the Social Construction of RealityThe Aesthetics of Everyday LifeImages and Their WorldsCHAPTER ONE THE PRACTICE OF VISUAL PIETYHigh and LowThe Aesthetic of DisinterestednessToward an Aesthetic of Popular Religious ArtThe Psychology of RecognitionInteractivity in the Reception of Popular Religious ImagesCHAPTER TWO EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY IN THE HISTORY OF VISUAL PIETYCatholic Visual Piety from the Late Middle Ages to the Modern PeriodJonathan Edwards and the Aesthetic of PietySympathy and Benevolence in Nineteenth-Century American Protestantism"Home-Sympathy" and Christian NurtureCHAPTER THREE THE MASCULINITY OF CHRISTThe Image of Male Friendship: Jonathan and DavidThe Christology of Friendship and Twentieth-Century Visual PietyCHAPTER FOUR READING THE FACE OF JESUSThe Head of Christ in Catholic and Lutheran ResponseThe Discourse of Hidden ImagesAvant-Garde and PopularCHAPTER FIVE DOMESTIC DEVOTION AND RITUALThe Christian Home: A Domestic Description of the SacredDomestic Ritual and ImagesCHAPTER SIX MEMORY AND THE SACREDSpace and TimeMemory and the SacredModes of Remembrance: Narrative and Anecdotal MemoryCONCLUSIONRELIGIOUS IMAGES AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF EVERYDAY LIFEAPPENDIXLETTERS AND DEMOGRAPHICSNOTESSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX