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OverviewA brilliant painter of society portraits, John Singer Sargent devoted many years at the height of his career to a project of an entirely different order: an ambitious, multi-media decoration titled Triumph of Religion (1890-1919) for Boston Public Library. This work tells the story of the artist and the pictorial program he pursued in Boston. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sally M. PromeyPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 1.332kg ISBN: 9780691089508ISBN 10: 0691089507 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 21 October 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Language: English Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS viii INTRODUCTION PAINTING RELIGION IN PUBLIC 2 CHAPTER 1 THE SUBJECTIVITY OF MODERN RELIGION 10 CHAPTER 2 RITUAL PERFORMANCES 62 CHAPTER 3 CULTURAL SELECTIONS 104 CHAPTER 4 EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY 144 CHAPTER 5 THE SYNAGOGUE CONTROVERSY 174 CHAPTER 6 SYNAGOGUE, CHURCH, AND THE SELF CONCEALED 226 CHAPTER 7 THE MANY PUBLICS OF SARGENT'S PROPHETS 272 EPIL0GUE REPRESENTING RELIGIOUS PLURALISM IN PUBLIC 306 ABBREVIATI0NS 317 N0TES 318 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 349 INDEX 356ReviewsA fascinating new book... The New York Times Painting Religion in Public is a tightly framed study, a model of scholarly argumentation leavened with methodological self-consciousness ... , [It] offers a powerful example of the impact that the study of visual culture can make as an important contribution to many disciplines as fine art and other forms of visual imagery are woven back into the fabric of social, cultural, political, and religious life. -- Daniel A. Siedell Church History A dense and dazzling must-read. -- Christine Temin Boston Globe It is most refreshing to have Sargent's mural projects taken seriously at last, and Promey must be congratulated on producing a richly researched, book-length study addressed to one of them. -- Mary Crawford Volk Burlington Magazine Nearly thirty years in the making, John Singer Sargent's murals for the Special Collections Hall in the Boston Public Library are a paragon of the so-called American Renaissance. Sally M. Promey's engrossing book lays out the whole imbroglio [and] the relationship of the pictures to their architectural setting. -- Keith Miller Times Literary Supplement By addressing the importance of the visual, Promey's book makes a valuable contribution to an aspect of religion that is often neglected. Promey's integration of American history, art history, religious history, and ritual studies, combined with her meticulous archival research, will help scholars in several disciplines understand the complex cultural currents underlying Sargent's mural project. -- Paula Kane Journal of the American Academy of Religion A fascinating new book... -- The New York Times Painting Religion in Public is a tightly framed study, a model of scholarly argumentation leavened with methodological self-consciousness ... , [It] offers a powerful example of the impact that the study of visual culture can make as an important contribution to many disciplines as fine art and other forms of visual imagery are woven back into the fabric of social, cultural, political, and religious life. -- Daniel A. Siedell, Church History A dense and dazzling must-read. -- Christine Temin, Boston Globe It is most refreshing to have Sargent's mural projects taken seriously at last, and Promey must be congratulated on producing a richly researched, book-length study addressed to one of them. -- Mary Crawford Volk, Burlington Magazine Nearly thirty years in the making, John Singer Sargent's murals for the Special Collections Hall in the Boston Public Library are a paragon of the so-called American Renaissance. Sally M. Promey's engrossing book lays out the whole imbroglio [and] the relationship of the pictures to their architectural setting. -- Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement By addressing the importance of the visual, Promey's book makes a valuable contribution to an aspect of religion that is often neglected. Promey's integration of American history, art history, religious history, and ritual studies, combined with her meticulous archival research, will help scholars in several disciplines understand the complex cultural currents underlying Sargent's mural project. -- Paula Kane, Journal of the American Academy of Religion Author InformationSally M. Promey is Professor of American Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She is author of Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism and contributing author and co-editor of The Visual Culture of American Religions (forthcoming). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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