ReVisioning Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art

Essays exploring how the methods of art history have been used to address the Christian content of artistic works, from iconography to postwar modernism.

ReVisioning: Critical Methods of Seeing Christianity in the History of Art' explores some of underlying methodological assumptions in the field of art history by examining the suitability and success, as well as the incompatibility and failure, of varying art historical methodologies when applied to works of art which distinctly manifest Christian narratives, themes, motifs, and symbols.

James Romaine is Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art History at Nyack College, Nyack, NY. He is also the President of the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA). His recent scholarship includes Art as Spiritual Perception: A Festschrift for Dr. E. John Walford (2012), and contributing to the exhibition catalogue, Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History (2009). Linda Stratford is Associate Professor at Asbury University, Wilmore, KY. She is a board member of ASCHA and has produced a number of publications and presentations that draw upon cross-disciplinary training in art history and aesthetics, including a manuscript in progress, "Artists into Frenchmen", a study of art and identity in modern France.