Upcoming Release: Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World
August 13 2021
Picture: Brill Studies on Art
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Brill Studies on Art will be publishing a new title later this month entitled Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450–1800. The collection is edited by Heather Graham and Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank.
According to the book's blurb:
Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450–1800 is a collection of studies variously exploring the role of visual and material culture in shaping early modern emotional experiences. The volume’s transatlantic framework moves from The Netherlands, Spain, and Italy to Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and the Philippines, and centers on visual culture as a means to explore how emotions differ in their local and global “contexts” amidst the many shifts occurring c. 1450–1800. These themes are examined through the lens of art informed by religious ideas, especially Catholicism, with each essay probing how religiously inflected art stimulated, molded, and encoded emotions.
