Alfons Mucha's "The Lord's Prayer" : Fin de siecle illustrations of gender and spirituality.
by
 
Hale, Meredith.

Title
Alfons Mucha's "The Lord's Prayer" : Fin de siecle illustrations of gender and spirituality.

Author
Hale, Meredith.

ISBN
9781339810782

Personal Author
Hale, Meredith.

Publication Information
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016

Physical Description
1 online resource (110 p.)

General Note
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-05.
 
Adviser: JJ Bauer.

Abstract
Alfons Mucha's illustrated and annotated book The Lord's Prayer (1899) presents a mystical and feminine realization of the "Our Father" that reflects the variety of spiritual traditions present at the fin de siecle while departing from conventional, often negative, depictions of women. Mucha, who practiced both Catholicism and Freemasonry, combined the beliefs of faiths that were frequently at odds with one another in his version of the prayer. The Catholic clergy criticized his French commentary for using feminine mystical titles for God. In response, Mucha created a second Czech version that reaffirmed masculine Christian conventions. While Mucha transformed his commentary, the images that depicted this radical text went unaltered. My examination of these illustrations reveals the close relationship between the spiritual and the feminine that Mucha's imagery asserts. The absence of standard symbols, like Christ and his crucifixion, and their replacement with feminine figures provided women with increased spiritual visibility.

Local Note
School code: 0153.

Subject Term
Art history.
 
Slavic studies.
 
Gender studies.
 
Spirituality.

Electronic Access
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Added Corporate Author
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Art History.

Thesis Note
Thesis (M.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016.

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