Review: Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader Edited by Amanda K. Beardsley and Mason Kamana Allred Oxford University Press, 2024

Authors

Maddie Blonquist

Keywords

Latter-day Saint art, visual culture, interdisciplinary scholarship

Abstract

The Center for Latter-day Saint Arts’ impressive new volume, Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader (Oxford University Press, 2024), makes an ambitious and long-awaited contribution to the fields of religious studies, art history, visual and material culture, and cultural theory. This edited collection is both intellectually and physically substantial, with over 600 pages, nearly 250 reproductions, and twenty-two authors from a myriad of disciplines. Scholars of history, art, film, and media studies share space with artists, museum directors, filmmakers, curators, theologians, and journalists who span the spectrum in their relationship to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The result? A bustling neighborhood of thinkers, where visiting readers converse with both seasoned scholars and intrepid newcomers in their collective effort to expand and multiply definitions of Latter-day Saint art.

Recommended Citation

Blonquist, Maddie (2025) "Review: Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader Edited by Amanda K. Beardsley and Mason Kamana Allred Oxford University Press, 2024," BYU Studies: Vol. 64: Iss. 2, Article 14.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol64/iss2/14