Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman [Hardcover]

David Morgan (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 27, 1996

American Protestants draw on a vast body of religious icons to disseminate confessional views, to teach, and to celebrate various family occasions. This work focuses on the production, marketing, and reception of one such set of religious illustrations, the art of Warner Sallman (1892-1968).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (March 27, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300063423
• ISBN-13: 978-0300063424
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,163,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

David Morgan (b. 1957) is Professor of Religion at Duke University with an additional appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke. His areas of interest are religious history, visual culture, media and religion, and art theory. Morgan is author of four books and editor or co-editor of another five volumes. He has held fellowships in Clare Hall, Cambridge University; the National Endowment of the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities; and the Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale University. He has also been a Stewart Fellow at Princeton University; a Mellon Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia, a Franklin Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and a Society of Print Collectors Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. Morgan is an elected life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society. He is co-founder and co-editor of Material Religion, an international journal on the material culture of religions, and he co-edits a book series on 'Religion, Media and Culture' at Routledge. He is currently writing a book entitled The Embodied Eye: Visual Culture and the Material Worlds of Religion.