Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 With the dramatic rise
of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, art played a fundamental
role in its practice, rhetoric, and global dissemination, while
Freemasonry, in turn, directly influenced developments in art. This
mutually enhancing relationship has only recently begun to receive
its due. The vilification of Masons, and their own secretive
practices, have hampered critical study and interpretation. As
perceptions change, and as masonic archives and institutions begin
opening to the public, the time is ripe for a fresh consideration
of the interconnections between Freemasonry and the visual arts.
This volume offers diverse approaches, and explores the challenges
inherent to the subject, through a series of eye-opening case
studies that reveal new dimensions of well-known artists such as
Francisco de Goya and John Singleton Copley, and important
collectors and entrepreneurs, including Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
and Baron Taylor. Individual essays take readers to various
countries within Europe and to America, Iran, India, and Haiti. The
kinds of art analyzed are remarkably wide-ranging-porcelain,
architecture, posters, prints, photography, painting, sculpture,
metalwork, and more-and offer a clear picture of the international
scope of the relationships between Freemasonry and art and their
significance for the history of modern social life, politics, and
spiritual practices. In examining this topic broadly yet deeply,
Freemasonry and the Visual Arts sets a standard for serious study
of the subject and suggests new avenues of investigation in this
fascinating emerging field.
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