Painting the Gospel
Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23520702 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kymberly N Pinder |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 204 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Painting the gospel : black public art and religion in Chicago (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/illinois/9780252039928.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2412861318 |
| ISBN | 9780252039928 |
| Open Library | OL26317813M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Innovative and lavishly illustrated, this book offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about black art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago. It escorts readers on an eye-opening odyssey to the murals, stained glass, and sculptures dotting the city's black churches and neighborhoods. Moving from Chicago's oldest black Christ figure to contemporary religious street art, the book explores ideas like blackness in public, art for black communities, and the relationship of Afrocentric art to Black Liberation Theology. It also focuses attention on art excluded from scholarship due to racial or religious particularity. Throughout, the book reflects on the myriad ways private black identities assert public and political goals through imagery. The book includes maps and tour itineraries that allow readers to make conceptual, historical, and geographical connections among the works.
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Gospel · Identity (music) · Literature · Painting · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sculpture · Sociology · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Law · Public Spaces through Art · Race, History, and American Society · African American art · African American churches · African americans · African americans in art · Afrocentrism · Art and religion · Black people in art · Blacks in art · Christian art and symbolism · Christianity and culture · Public art · Race in art · Religion · Religion and culture
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |