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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kristin SchwainPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9780801445774ISBN 10: 0801445779 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 20 December 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsKristin Schwain considers the influences and interpretations of 'art' in the everyday lives of 'average' Americans. Concentrating her attention on four leading artists-painters Thomas Eakins, Abbott Handerson Thayer, and Henry Ossawa Tanner and photographer F. Holland Day-Schwain attends to their place outside the elitist frames of academic art and theological debates. . . . Recommended. -D. Apostolos-Cappadona, Choice In Signs of Grace, Kristin Schwain weaves together art history and the history of religion to delineate broad patterns and demonstrate the importance of the exchanges between art and religion at a time when both aesthetic and religious thought were fully engaged with the transformative processes of modernization. Sarah Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts, Indiana University ""Kristin Schwain considers the influences and interpretations of 'art' in the everyday lives of 'average' Americans. Concentrating her attention on four leading artists-painters Thomas Eakins, Abbott Handerson Thayer, and Henry Ossawa Tanner and photographer F. Holland Day-Schwain attends to their place outside the elitist frames of academic art and theological debates... Recommended.""-D. Apostolos-Cappadona, Choice ""Schwain's work forms part of a revival on scholarship on American religion that focuses on visual and material culture. She successfully challenges the concept that religion occupies a conservative, nostalgic, retrograde perspective within modernity. Schwain argues that it is precisely through their turn to religious themes that American artists (and art critics) forged a new, modern way of seeing, one in which art prompted personal contemplation and emotional transcendence... This is a refreshing and thought-provoking study of a topic that has been marginalized for too long. Schwain's book deserves a broad readership for its keen core insight: that religious sensibility has a close affinity to the modernist way of seeing.""-American Historical Review ""Signs of Grace offers a revealing window on the way in which the visual arts were given a distinct religious bearing in late Victorian America-one that accentuated momentary experiences of spiritual and aesthetic illumination. In this rich and sumptuous book, Kristin Schwain has done an excellent job of analyzing these forms of spiritualized visuality through the works of Thomas Eakins, Henry Ossawa Tanner, F. Holland Day, and Abbott Handerson Thayer.""-Leigh Eric Schmidt, Princeton University ""In Signs of Grace, Kristin Schwain weaves together art history and the history of religion to delineate broad patterns and demonstrate the importance of the exchanges between art and religion at a time when both aesthetic and religious thought were fully engaged with the transformative processes of modernization.""-Sarah Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts, Indiana University Author InformationKristin Schwain is Assistant Professor of American Art and Architecture at the University of Missouri–Columbia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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