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Author Dillenberger, John.

Title The visual arts and Christianity in America : from the colonial period to the present / John Dillenberger.

Publication Info. New York : Crossroad, 1989.
©1988

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  701.04 D578V    Check Shelf
Edition New, expanded edition.
Description 290 pages, 184 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [209]-262.
Contents One / Protestant and Catholic approaches to the visual arts -- English Christianity and the visual arts of the colonies -- Spanish Catholicism and Catholic art -- Two / Nineteenth-Century view of art and architecture -- Clergy views of the visual arts -- Religious journals and the visual arts -- The Religious views of artists -- Theological interpretations of the neo-classical and the neo-gothic styles -- Three / Nineteenth-Century art in private and public life -- Nature and nature's God - Civil religion in the visual arts -- Old Testament themes -- The Christ figure and new commissions -- Four / The visual arts in the Twentieth Century -- Views of the visual arts -- New forms of Christian and religious art -- Observations on contemporary issues.
Note Includes index.
Subject Christian art and symbolism -- United States.
ISBN 0824508904
9780824508906
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