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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Review: What is Contemporary Art?
Terry Smith, What is Contemporary Art? Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, xiv + 329 pp., £17.50/$25.00, paper. Terry Smith begins: “No idea…
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Review: The Religious Vision of Rembrandt
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Rembrandt’s Late Religious Portraits. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, 150 pp., £29.50/$42.50 cloth. This catalogue accompanied an exhibition of…
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Exhibition Review: “Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm”
From now until 5 January 2014, Tate Britain is hosting an exhibition titled “Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm”, exploring examples of religious, political…
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