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OverviewIn this lavishly illustrated book, David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a vast record of images in illustrated bibles, Christian almanacs, children's literature, popular religious books, charts, broadsides, Sunday school cards, illuminated devotional items, tracts, chromos, and engravings. His purpose is to explain the rise of these images, their appearance and subject matter, how they were understood by believers, the uses to which they were put, and what their relation was to technological innovations, commerce, and the cultural politics of Protestantism. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Morgan (Associate Professor of Art, Associate Professor of Art, Valparaiso University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 17.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 25.70cm Weight: 1.134kg ISBN: 9780195130294ISBN 10: 0195130294 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 19 August 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Media, Millennium, Nationhood Part I: The Millennial Mission of the American Republic 2: Evangelical Images and the American Tract Society 3: The Visual Rhetoric of Northern Evangelicalism Part II: Adventism and Images of the End 4: Millerism and the Schematic Imagination 5: The Commerce of Images and Adventist Piety Part III: Visual Pedagogy 6: Pictures and Children 7: Talking Pictures Part IV: The Rise of the Devotional Image in American Protestantism 8: The Devotional Likeness of Christ 9: Religious Art and the Formation of Character Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviews<br> A groundbreaking book [with] tremendous ramifications.... For this reviewer, Protestants and Pictures raises the staggering possibility that nineteenth-century American conservative Protestants, compared to their more liberal brethren of the early twentieth century and their more sophisticated' evangelical-Reformed great-grandchildren at the end of the twentieth century, demonstrated the more sophisticated use of visual imagery. We'll be busy for a long time sorting out the implications of that. --Books & Culture<br> It demonstrates both the desirability of looking beyond current borders of art history and the kinds and amounts of information awaiting scholars ready to reaffirm the art of disfavored groups. --College Art Association Reviews<br> A groundbreaking book [with] tremendous ramifications.... For this reviewer, Protestants and Pictures raises the staggering possibility that nineteenth-century American conservative Protestants, compared to their more liberal brethren of the early twentieth century and their more sophisticated' evangelical-Reformed great-grandchildren at the end of the twentieth century, demonstrated the more sophisticated use of visual imagery. We'll be busy for a long time sorting out the implications of that. --Books & Culture<br> It demonstrates both the desirability of looking beyond current borders of art history and the kinds and amounts of information awaiting scholars ready to reaffirm the art of disfavored groups. --College Art Association Reviews<br> The scholarly significance and richness of Morgan's book are difficult to overstate. Thoroughly grounded in the secondary literature on nineteenth-century Protestantism, his book incorporates the insights of that work with his own prodigious research in order to produce a compelling new synthesis. American Historical Review, June 2001 Morgan is adept at showing how the use of images corresponded to the various crosscurrents of religious life. American Historical Review, June 2001 Morgan offers a well-researched and provocative exploration of the nineteenth-century roots of centemporary Prostestand engagement with the visual arts. American Historical Review, June 2001 Good history either advances knowledge by exploiting new source material or advances interpretation through creative synthesis. Great history does both. Protestants and Pictures is great history. Readers of David Morgan's other work in American Protestant visual imagery will find in this text the culmination of a research trajectory that has revolutionized the way historians understand visual culture in the nineteenth-century United States. Milton Gaither, Historian, Spring 2001 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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