The Visual Arts and Christianity in America

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The Visual Arts and Christianity in America is written by John Dillenberger and published by Chico, Calif. : Scholars Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0891307613 (ISBN 10) and 9780891307617 (ISBN 13).

Part One presents the colonial backdrop, both English and Spanish, against which and out of which the ensuing developments in American art and religious life took shape. Part Two treats nineteenth-century views of art and architecture, focusing on the views held by the clergy and conveyed in religious journals as well as the religious views of the artists and architects themselves. In Part Three, devoted to art in private and public life, major issues emerge that will remain as such into the twentieth century: the relation between nature and history, the place of art in civil religion, and the presence or absence of explicit biblical themes. The fourth and entirely new portion of the book, devoted to the twentieth century, examines the continuities and discontinuities in style and content between nineteenth- and twentieth-century art in relation to spiritual and religious perceptions.