{"id":5710,"date":"2016-08-29T20:55:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartdoctors.com\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2016-08-29T20:55:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:55:46","slug":"christopher-johns-receives-chancellors-award-for-research-at-fall-faculty-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2016\/08\/christopher-johns-receives-chancellors-award-for-research-at-fall-faculty-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Johns Receives Chancellor’s Award for Research at Fall Faculty Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"christopherjohnsbook\"<\/a>Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, received the Chancellor’s Award for Research at the Fall Faculty Assembly on August 25. Johns was recognized for his book The Visual Culture of the Catholic Enlightenment<\/em> (Penn State University Press, 2014), a culmination of many years of painstaking archival research. The book reflects a keen sense of mature interpretive conceptualization. It embodies his field-defining contribution to eighteenth-century European cultural history.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristopher\u2019s writing has been described as a \u2018magisterial and ground-breaking work,\u2019\u201d Zeppos said. \u201cIt is a landmark for his discipline that will influence generations of scholars to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until relatively recently, most scholars considered the notion of a Catholic enlightenment either oxymoronic or even illusory, since the received wisdom was that the Catholic Church was a tireless and indefatigable enemy of modernist progress. According to Johns, however, the eighteenth-century papacy recognized the advantages of engaging with certain aspects of enlightenment thinking, and many in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, both in Italy and abroad, were sincerely interested in making the Church more relevant in the modern world and, above all, in reforming the various institutions that governed society.<\/p>\n

Johns has written another \"christopherjohnschina\"<\/a>groundbreaking study that examines chinoiserie\u2014European works of art and visual culture that were influenced by Chinese art\u2014in the context of church and state politics, with particular focus on the Catholic missions\u2019 impact on Western attitudes toward China and the Chinese. In his book, China and the Church: Chinoiserie in Global Context<\/em> (University of California Press, 2016), Johns demonstrates that the emperor\u2019s 1722 prohibition against Catholic evangelization, which occurred after almost 150 years of tolerance, prompted a remarkable change in European visualizations of China in Roman Catholic countries. <\/p>\n

\"popebenedictXIV\"<\/a>Emerging from an international conference on the papacy of Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (reigned 1740-1758) and its legacy, the anthology Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality<\/em> (University of Toronto Press, 2016) offers a broad and nuanced assessment of Benedict\u2019s engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture.\u00a0Johns, co-editor of the volume, contributed two essays:\u00a0 \u201cIntroduction:\u00a0 Benedict XIV and Catholic Enlightenment\u201d and \u201cThe Papacy and Coffee Culture: Benedict XIV\u2019s Coffee House in the Quirinal Gardens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, received the Chancellor’s Award for Research at the Fall Faculty Assembly on August 25. Johns was recognized for his book The Visual Culture of the Catholic Enlightenment (Penn State University Press, 2014), a culmination of many years of painstaking archival research. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":3458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hart","category-vrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}