Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism

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Indiana University Press, 1993 M03 22 - 326 páginas

"Promey's book is a penetrating analysis of Shaker art.... The book is a gem, a true advance in Shaker studies, art history, religious history, and cultural history. Highly recommended." -- Choice

"... a very intelligent and articulate... treatment of a stunning set of message-images." -- Art Bulletin

"This book is a pleasure to look at and to read." -- Religious Studies Review

"[A] fascinating investigation into another world. The Shaker spirit drawings... offer clues into a remarkable moment of American life, as well as an opportunity to rethink just how the visual arts, religious revitalizations, and social memory relate to one another.... [A] model study: clear, absorbing, and significant."Â -- Neil Harris, author of The Artist in American Society

"Sally Promey's inquiry... critically engages current issues in the study of visual culture: what do images do; how do they work; what needs do they fulfill; just what is their 'power'? Her compelling case study joins fundamental concerns of art historians with those of students of religion and history... By means of an exacting examination of Shaker drawings as the site of both expectation and encounter, Promey successfully situates these Spiritual Spectacles at the meeting point of the 'inner' and the 'outer' eye." -- Linda Seidel, author of Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait: Stories of an Icon

"Promey has brought to her work an excellent sensitivity to the religious issues involved, keen sight and powers of observation, and a very creative interpretive framework."Â -- Stephen J. Stein, author of The Shaker Experience in America

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Continuity in Shaker Experience
17
Discontinuity in Shaker Experience
32
The Instruments
44
In Heavens Likeness
65
Passing through Pictures
85
A Visible Genealogy of Gospel
107
Image as Visible Presence
132
The Power of Ambiguity
159
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
207
BIBLIOGRAPHY
278
INDEX
284
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Página 107 - I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Página 24 - Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
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Página 30 - Believers may not, in any case or circumstance, manufacture for sale, any article or articles which are superfluously wrought, and which would have a tendency to feed the pride and vanity of man, or such as would not be admissible to use among themselves, on account of their superfluity.16 Purging out what was unnecessary was no inconsequential matter.
Página 28 - ... Shaker settlements the decorative treatment of inspirational texts. These appear as an admirable though very minor act of inconsistency in the members of a sect who lived according to a rule which runs: . . . No maps, Charts, and no pictures and paintings, shall ever be hung up in Your dwelling rooms, shops, or Office. And no pictures or paintings set in frames, with glass before them, shall ever be among you.
Página 135 - This cup is the new testament in my blood : this do ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me, for as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show forth the Lord's death till he come.
Página 202 - Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing, exemplified by the Principles and Practice of the true Church of Christ. — History of the Progressive Work of God, extending from the Creation of Man to the " Harvest," comprising the Four Great Dispensations now consummating in the Millennial Church.

Acerca del autor (1993)

SALLY M. PROMEY is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland at College Park.

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