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Christian Art by Rowena Loverance (Hardback, 2007)
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Palm mats and pilgrim tokens, manuscript illuminations and church frescoes, gold and enamel reliquaries and papier-mache figurines, Russian icons and Mexican murals: What makes these works of art Christian? And what, as such, distinguishes them from other works? These are the questions at the center of this book, which is at once a sumptuously illustrated survey of Christian art over time and across the globe and a probing study of what Christian art really means, how it functions, where it arises, and whom it serves. Rowena Loverance draws extensively on the vast international collections of the British Museum, with its remarkable examples of Christian art in the fourth-century Roman empire, the meeting of Eastern and Western art during the Crusades, Christian missionary art and its reception in sixteenth-century Africa, India, and Japan, and twentieth-century Christian popular art from Latin America and Oceania. The Museum's collections of decorative arts yield original and lesser-kwn Christian icography, allowing the author to show how Christian and other artists have responded to a variety of visual traditions. Within the European convention, the book considers the assaults of post-Renaissance scientific and philosophical discoveries and concludes with an assessment of the current state of Christian art at the beginning of the twenty-first century.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674024796
ISBN-139780674024793
eBay Product ID (ePID)183799412
Product Key Features
SubjectFine Arts / Art History
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorRowena Loverance
FormatSewn,Paper over Boards,With Dust Jacket, Hardback
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication01/05/2007
Country of PublicationUnited States
Out-Of-Print Date20/01/2015
Content NoteIllustrations
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