Spiritual Spectacles - Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism

" -Stephen J. Stein, author of The Shaker Experience in America

List of contents

Foreword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Sense of Crisis
Part I: Vision and Image
1. From Vision to Image: Continuity in Shaker Experience
2. Image and Inconoclasm: Discontinuity in Shaker Experience
3. Production and Regulation of Images: The Instruments and the Ministry
Part II: Vision, Image, and Space
4. Ethics and Aesthetics: In Heaven's Likeness
5. Image as Threshold of Heaven: Passing through Pictures
Part III: Vision, Image, and Time
6. (Re)collecting History: A Visible Genealogy of "Gospel Relations"
7. Restoring Relationship: Image as "Visible Presence"
Epilogue: The Power of Ambiguity
Figures
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

SALLY M. PROMEY is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Summary

Among the deservedly well-known works of art produced by the Shakers are many religious drawings and paintings produced under inspiration by members of the community. This work explores this aspect of Shaker visual culture.

Product details

• Authors: Sally M. Promey, Promey Sally M
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1993
• EAN: 9780253346148
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34614-8
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 657 g
• Series: Drama and Performance Studies; Religion in North America; Drama and Performance Studies; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries