Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination - Schaefer, Sarah C
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Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination explores the role of biblical imagery in modernity, an era that has often been defined through a process of secularization. It does so through the lens of Gustave Doré (1832-83), whose work is among the most reproduced and adapted scriptural imagery in the history of Judeo-Christianity. The book argues that Doré's biblical imagery negotiated the challenges of visualizing the Bible for modern audiences in both sacred and secular contexts. A set of texts whose veracity and authority were under unprecedented scrutiny in this period, the Bible was…mehr

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Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination explores the role of biblical imagery in modernity, an era that has often been defined through a process of secularization. It does so through the lens of Gustave Doré (1832-83), whose work is among the most reproduced and adapted scriptural imagery in the history of Judeo-Christianity. The book argues that Doré's biblical imagery negotiated the challenges of visualizing the Bible for modern audiences in both sacred and secular contexts. A set of texts whose veracity and authority were under unprecedented scrutiny in this period, the Bible was at the center of a range of historical, theological, and cultural debates. Gustave Doré is at the nexus of these narratives, as his work established the most pervasive visual language for biblical imagery in the past two and a half centuries, and constitutes the means by which the Bible has persistently been translated visually.
Autorenporträt
Sarah C. Schaefer is an historian of modern art and visual culture, whose work focuses on religious media, technologies of reproduction, medieval revivalisms, and archaeological representation. Her writings have appeared in Word & Image, Material Religion, and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. She has curated several exhibitions, including The World Turned Upside Down: Apocalyptic Imagery in England, 1750-1850 at Marquette University's Haggerty Museum of Art, and is currently working on a show that explores the manuscripts of J. R. R. Tolkien through the lens of his career as a medieval philologist.