2007

Jason David LaFountain

  • Doctoral Student
  • Harvard University
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Project

A History of New England Puritan Art

Program

Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art

Department

History of Art and Architecture

Abstract

This study explores the relation between "technometry" and the theorization of art by English and American Puritan intellectuals; defines a vocabulary derived from period texts and objects (to construct a historical semantics) for understanding New England Puritan art; explicates the ideology of Christic imitation as it undergirds the conceptualization, production, and consumption of art for New England Puritans; and analyzes the centrality of ideas of building and planting (i.e. of edification) to Puritan art-making.