. “More than just a list of artworks, the catalog website also provides a wealth of information about each piece and unparalleled research tools for scholars, artists, church members and anyone interested in Book of Mormon visual art.” “Abish and the Queen,” 2015, oil.
The database, Bowman says in a news release, “reveals anew the complexity and importance of the text as a signal artifact of American religious history.”The project began, says Champoux, an art historian who lives outside Denver, when she was investigating how a Book of Mormon story known as “Lehi’s dream” was depicted in Latter-day Saint visual art.
It would be good for artists, she says, to see different ways people were engaging with the religious texts visually. Because Book of Mormon art was brand-new back then, she says, creators were “understandably relying on European iconography.” These days, more of the figures are being depicted with a “Mesoamerican look.”The art that comes through official church media tends to be in an “illustrative, narrative, realistic art style,” Champoux says, which has a place in the spectrum of possibilities.
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