ReVisioning
Subtitle: critical methods of seeing Christianity in the history of art
By: edited by James Romaine and Linda Stratford
Series: Art for faith's sake series -- 10; Art for faith's sake series -- 10.
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781620320846
Subjects: Art; Christian art and symbolism; Methodology; Ikonographie; Methodologie; Christliche Kunst; Christianity and art; History
Other titles: Critical methods of seeing Christianity in the history of art
Description: ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art examines the application of art historical methods to the history of Christianity and art. As methods of art history have become more interdisciplinary, there has been a notable emergence of discussions of religion in art history as well as related fields such as visual culture and theology. This book represents the first critical examination of scholarly methodologies applied to the study of Christian subjects, themes, and contexts in art. ReVisioning contains original work from a range of scholars, each of whom has addressed the question, in regard to a well-known work of art or body of work, "How have particular methods of art history been applied, and with what effect?" The study moves from the third century to the present, providing extensive treatment and analysis of art historical methods applied to the history of Christianity and art [Publisher description].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Expanding the discourse on Christianity in the history of art / James Romaine; title: Methodological issues from the fields of art history, visual culture, and theology / Linda Stratford; title: pt. I. Methodological issues of iconography in early Christian and medieval art.; title: Iconographic structure: recognizing the resurrected Jesus on the Vatican Jonah Sarcophagus / Linda Møskeland Fuchs; title: Icon as theology: the Byzantine Virgin of Predestination / Matthew J. Milliner; title: Marginalia or eschatological iconography?: providence and plenitude in the imagery of abundance at Orvieto Cathedral / Rachel Hostetter Smith; title: Iconography of sign: a semiotic reading of the Arma Christi / Heather Madar; title: Hybridizing iconography: The Miraculous Mass of St. Gregory featherwork from the Colegio de San José de los Naturales in Mexico City / Elena Fitzpatrick Sifford; title: pt. II. Methodological issues of reading theology in Renaissance and Baroque art.; title: Reading hermeneutic space: pictorial and spiritual transformation in the Brancacci Chapel / Chloë Reddaway; title: Reading theological place: Joachim Patinir's Saint Jerome in the Desert as devotional pilgrimage / Matthew Sweet Vanderpoel; title: Reading theological context: a Marian interpretation of Michelangelo's Roman Pietà / Elizabeth Lev; title: Reading visual rhetoric: strategies of piety and propaganda in Lucas Cranach the Elder's Passional Christi und Antichristi / Bobbi Dykema; title: Reading devotion: Counter-Reformation iconography and meaning in Gregorio Fernández's Cristo yacente of El Pardo / Ilenia Colón Mendoza; title: pt. III. Methodological issues of historical-religious context in nineteenth- twentieth-, and twenty-first century art.; title: Historicism and scenes of "The passion" in nineteenth-century French romantic painting / Joyce C. Polistena; title: Consuming Christ: Henry Ossawa Tanner's Biblical paintings and nineteenth-century American commerce / Kristin A. Schwain; title: Figuring redemption: Christianity and modernity in Max Beckmann's Resurrections / Amy K. Hamlin; title: Embodiment as sacrament: Francis Bacon's postwar horror / Rina Arya; title: Media, mimesis, and sacrifice: Paul Pfeiffer's contemporary Christological lens / Isabelle Loring Wallace.