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List of contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CONSTRUCTIVISM AND THE HISTORY OF VISUAL CULTURE
Material Things and the Social Construction of Reality
The Aesthetics of Everyday Life
Images and Their Worlds
CHAPTER ONE THE PRACTICE OF VISUAL PIETY
High and Low
The Aesthetic of Disinterestedness
Toward an Aesthetic of Popular Religious Art
The Psychology of Recognition
Interactivity in the Reception of Popular Religious Images
CHAPTER TWO EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY IN THE HISTORY OF VISUAL PIETY
Catholic Visual Piety from the Late Middle Ages to the Modern Period
Jonathan Edwards and the Aesthetic of Piety
Sympathy and Benevolence in Nineteenth-Century American Protestantism
"Home-Sympathy" and Christian Nurture
CHAPTER THREE THE MASCULINITY OF CHRIST
The Image of Male Friendship: Jonathan and David
The Christology of Friendship and Twentieth-Century Visual Piety
CHAPTER FOUR READING THE FACE OF JESUS
The Head of Christ in Catholic and Lutheran Response
The Discourse of Hidden Images
Avant-Garde and Popular
CHAPTER FIVE DOMESTIC DEVOTION AND RITUAL
The Christian Home: A Domestic Description of the Sacred
Domestic Ritual and Images
CHAPTER SIX MEMORY AND THE SACRED
Space and Time
Memory and the Sacred
Modes of Remembrance: Narrative and Anecdotal Memory
CONCLUSION
RELIGIOUS IMAGES AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF EVERYDAY LIFE
APPENDIX
LETTERS AND DEMOGRAPHICS
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
About the author
David Morgan is Associate Professor of Art History at Valparaiso University and the editor of Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman (1996).
Summary
A study of devotional images that traces their historical links to important strains of American culture. It demonstrates how popular visual images - from Warner Sallman's 'Head of Christ' to velvet renditions of DaVinci's 'Last Supper' to illustrations on prayer cards - have assumed central roles in contemporary American lives and communities.
