Overview

'ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art' explores some of underlying methodological assumptions in the field of art history by examining the suitability and success, as well as the incompatibility and failure, of varying art historical methodologies when applied to works of art which distinctly manifest Christian narratives, themes, motifs, and symbols.

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Author:   James Romaine ,  Linda Stratford
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   Lutterworth Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.551kg
ISBN:  

9780718893361

ISBN 10:   0718893360
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   25 December 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
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Table of 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 PART I. Methodological Issues of Iconography in Early Christian and Medieval Art Iconographic Literacy: Recognizing the Resurrected Jesus in 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 Jose de los Naturales in Mexico City -Elena Fitzpatrick Sifford PART 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 Penitence of St. Jerome as Devotional Pilgrimage -Matthew S. Vanderpoel Reading Theological Context: A Marian Interpretation of Michelangelo's Roman Pietà -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 Fernandez's 'Cristo yacente' of El Pardo -Ilenia Colón Mendoza Part 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 Author bios Index"

Reviews

"""The essays in this book offer detailed attention to particular works in a way that often brings fresh understanding. Anyone interested in the relationship between Christian faith and art will find much that is helpful."" Richard Harries, Modern Believing, 56.3, July 2015 ""Within this fulsome collection, researchers will be pleased to find no less than 39 black and white illustrations as well as 24 full-colour plates. Scholars of art history in general and more specifically researchers in theology and the arts will be well served by this rigorous and engaging exploration of how to bridge these disciplines more carefully. It represents a unique resource for faculty and graduate students."" -Taylor Worley, Theological Book Review, Vol. 27 No.1, 2016"

The essays in this book offer detailed attention to particular works in a way that often brings fresh understanding. Anyone interested in the relationship between Christian faith and art will find much that is helpful. -- Richard Harries, Modern Believing, 56.3, July 2015

The essays in this book offer detailed attention to particular works in a way that often brings fresh understanding. Anyone interested in the relationship between Christian faith and art will find much that is helpful. Richard Harries, Modern Believing, 56.3, July 2015

Author Information

"James Romaine, Associate Professor of Art History and chair of the Department of Art History at Nyack College. He is the President of the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA). His recent scholarship includes Art as Spiritual Perception: A Festschrift for Dr. E. John Walford (2012), and contributing to the exhibition catalog Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History (2009). Linda Stratford, Associate Professor at Asbury University. She is a board member of the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA) and has produced a number of publications and presentations that draw upon cross-disciplinary training in art history and aesthetics, including a manuscript in progress, ""Artists into Frenchmen,"" a study of art and identity in modern France."

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