Review: The Bible as Visual Culture
John Harvey, The Bible as Visual Culture; When Text Becomes Image, The Bible in the Modern World 52 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Phoenix Press) 2013,…
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Surfing the Web: Our Contemporary Visual (il)Literacy
At a recent Society for the Study of Theology conference in Manchester, Society President and Professor David Brown stated plainly the kind of grim diagnosis of contemporary…
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Review: Stealing the Mystic Lamb
A Review of Noah Charney, Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World’s Most Coveted Masterpiece. New York, Public Affairs, 2010. When…
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Review: Titian: His Life
Sheila Hale, Titian: His Life. London: HarperPress, 2012, xxi + 832 pp., £30/ $39.99 hardback. Sheila Hale begins the introduction of her tome on the life…
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Reviews: The Sensuous and The Sacred Community
Marcia B. Hall and Tracy E. Cooper, eds., The Sensuous in the Counter-Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xv + 339 pp., £65.00/$99.00 cloth. While…
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Review: The Colorful Apocalypse
Greg Bottoms, The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007. 200 pp., £14.00/$20.00 cloth. This volume, exploring the lives and works of…
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Jamini Roy and the Lesson of (Visual) Contextualization
On a recent trip to India I visited the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi. I confess I knew little to nothing about Indian…
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