Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain, 1790-1850
Assistant Professor of Art History and Religion, Kathryn Barush, recently published Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain, 1790-1850 (London: Routledge, 2016). A second, paperback edition will be published in the coming months.
Professor Barush’s book has been well received. It was named Book of the Year by Dame Marina Warner in TLS, was the runner-up for the AAR Best First Book in History of Religions, and an honorable mention for the Borsch-Rast Prize and Lectureship at the Graduate Theological Union.
A review in the European Romantic Review notes that Art and the Sacred Journey insists on “Catholicism’s influence on English Romanticism, via Chaucer, Dante, Piers Plowman, and the contemporary fascination with medieval culture and antiquities as part of the nation’s ‘reclaimed heritage’ (50).”[1] In the review, Alexandra K Wettlaufer goes on the say that “Kathryn Barush’s rich and erudite study, scrupulously documented and illustrated, provides a welcome supplement to our understanding of religion’s influence on Romanticism, and the author is to be commended for her efforts ‘to restore the place of devotional image-making and image-viewing within a period of British art that has been largely dominated by studies of secular landscape painting and portraiture’ (243).”[2]
Professor Barush's book can be purchased on the publisher's website, and will soon carry a paperback version.
[1] Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, University of Texas at Austin, in European Romantic Review, August 2017.
[2] Ibid.