{"product_id":"spiritual-spectacles","title":"Spiritual Spectacles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e \" . . . a very intelligent and articulate . . . treatment of a stunning set of message-images.\" —Art Bulletin\u003cbr\u003e \"This book is a pleasure to look at and to read.\" —Religious Studies Review\u003cbr\u003e \"[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.\" —Neil Harris, author of The Artist in American Society\u003cbr\u003e \"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 \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Spectacles\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\" —Stephen J. Stein, author of The Shaker Experience in America\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54253861405016,"sku":"9780253346148","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780253346148.jpg?v=1778536848","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/spiritual-spectacles","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}