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Cynthia
Hogan
Author
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
Summer 2017
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious
Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories
of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts
museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally
produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the
Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early
twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a
fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways
through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected
and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the
museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary
lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it
with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own
histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the
religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts
museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious
ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of
aestheticization and musealization.
Summer 2017
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums,
Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting
institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
Summer 2017
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017-08
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
2017-08
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
2017-08
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
2017-08
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
2017-08
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
2017-08
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Degree granting institution
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
2017-08
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
2017-08
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism; Museum studies; Religion in art museums; Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
2017-08
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism, Museum studies, Religion in art museums, Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Religious Studies
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
2017-08
Cynthia
Hogan
Creator
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts and Sciences
The Art of Religion: Aestheticizing Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Religious Artifacts
This dissertation examines the ways in which new meanings and new categories of knowledge about religious artifacts are produced and disseminated by public fine arts museums and academic art history. Through three case studies of artifacts originally produced for religious use, (1) a thirteenth-century medieval Spanish Crucifix in the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, (2) an early twentieth-century Iraqi Tik at the North Carolina Museum of Art, and (3) a fourteenth-century Iranian Mihrab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I trace the ways through which religious artifacts are reframed as objects of fine art that are collected and exhibited in fine arts museums. As religious artifacts are incorporated into the museum industry, they are encoded with new secularized meanings through the disciplinary lens of academic art history, altering their original religious value and replacing it with aesthetic value. Further, the narratives that fine arts museums tell about their own histories, which immortalize founders, donors, buildings, and collections, eclipse the religious significance of the particular religious artifacts contained within fine arts museums. As the fine arts museum itself comes to be memorialized and valued in religious ways, religious artifacts, in turn, are secularized through the twin processes of aestheticization and musealization.
2017
Religion
Museum studies
Art history
Art criticism; Museum studies; Religion in art museums; Religious art
eng
Doctor of Philosophy
Dissertation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Degree granting institution
Randall
Styers
Thesis advisor
Jonathan
Boyarin
Thesis advisor
John
Coffey
Thesis advisor
David
Morgan
Thesis advisor
Todd
Ochoa
Thesis advisor
text
2017-08
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