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An Anti​-​Icon: a protestant art now

by John Harvey

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Part 1 11:49
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Part 2 11:16
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Part 3 11:27
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Part 4 05:56
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Part 5 05:58
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Part 6 09:45
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'The Second Commandment' 02:45

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The lecture discusses works from The Pictorial Bible series. The series explores ways in which biblical texts can be visualized within an anti-iconic framework of religious art using methodologies and learning native to the discipline of biblical studies.

The artworks are informed by the Judaic, early Christian, and Protestant Reformation views of scripture and a visual tradition predicated upon the illegitimacy of pictorializing spiritual concepts and scriptural stories and events. For example, the seventeenth-century Protestant Reformers adopted the New Testament's emphasis on the primacy of textual revelation and developed a tradition of text-based decoration and images wherein typographical representations of biblical verses and phrases substitute for religious imagery.

The text-based images in the series are a self-conscious and deliberate endeavour to contrive a non-representational religious art form which connects with other expressions of Judaeo-Christian and Protestant culture in particular, and with specific developments in Modernism, namely abstract, systems, and conceptual art. Informed by these concepts, the revived text-based images attempt to reinvent an 'iconoclast art'. In the context of the series, the term signifies an art which, rather than defacing religious representation, mounts a constructive reaction.

The presentation is, here, in four parts (which does not reflect the divisions of the paper), followed by a recording of the sound presentation.

Further information about the sound presentation is available at

auralbible.weebly.com

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released May 4, 2021

Personnel: John Harvey.

Instrumentation for sound performance: Adobe Audition 3.0, ART HeadAmp 4, Boss FV-500H volume pedal, Digitech HardWire Delay/Looper pedal (x2 in series), Line6 Pocket Pod 1.0, Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster SFX-01, Toshiba Portege R400 laptop, and Traveler EG-1 guitar.

Context: Paper presented at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (September 18, 2009).

Source: Sample derived from recordings on an open-access online archive of sermon by A. W. Pink and other ministers (accessed June 2009).

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John Harvey Aberystwyth, UK

I’m a practitioner and historian of sound art and visual art, and Emeritus Professor of Art at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University, UK. My research field is the sonic and visual culture of religion. I explore the sonic articulations of the Christian religion by engaging visual, textual, and audible sources, theological and cultural ideas, and systemic and audiovisualogical processes. ... more

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