What Is Protestant Art?

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37117-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 299 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts

What is Protestant Art? presents an introduction to Protestant visual culture from the Reformation to the present. Examining historical images as evidence of changing practices and attitudes, Andrew T. Coates explores three major themes in the history of Protestant visual culture: 1) the religious work of images, 2) the relationship between word and image, 3) the power of the Bible and its visual representation. The book analyses images such as prints, paintings, maps of the ‘Holy Land,’ and Bible illustrations to demonstrate the broad range of images that could be classified as Protestant ‘art.’ This work argues that the variety of images and visual practices throughout Protestant history might better be described by the term ‘visual culture’ than ‘art.’

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coates, Andrew T

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Christliche Kunst

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew T. Coates received a PhD in religious studies from Duke University (2016). He is the author of several articles on the visual culture of Protestantism in the United States, including an entry in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America (OUP, 2017).