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- Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: The New Black Studies Series
summary
Innovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago. Kymberly N. Pinder escorts readers on an eye-opening odyssey to the murals, stained glass, and sculptures dotting the city's African American churches and neighborhoods. Moving from Chicago's oldest black Christ figure to contemporary religious street art, Pinder explores ideas like blackness in public, art for black communities, and the relationship of Afrocentric art to Black Liberation Theology. She also focuses attention on art excluded from scholarship due to racial or religious particularity. Throughout, she reflects on the myriad ways private black identities assert public and political goals through imagery.
Painting the Gospel includes maps and tour itineraries that allow readers to make conceptual, historical, and geographical connections among the works.
Painting the Gospel includes maps and tour itineraries that allow readers to make conceptual, historical, and geographical connections among the works.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- List of Illustrations
- pp. v-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Appendix I. Tours and Maps
- pp. 143-155
- About the Author
- p. 205
- The New Black Studies Series
- pp. 206-208
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252098086
Related ISBN(s)
9780252039928, 9780252081439
MARC Record
OCLC
937392318
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2016-02-22
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016