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Article: From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications.(Book review)
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- Journal of the Early Republic
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications. By Barbara E. Lacey. (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Pp. 220. Illustrations. Cloth, $69.50.)
In her latest, well-illustrated book, From Sacred to Secular: Visual Images in Early American Publications, Barbara Lacey commendably continues to advocate for the importance of graphics as primary sources for understanding the culture and ideologies of American society. Grounding her arguments in the works of visual-culture scholars W. J. T. Mitchell and David Morgan, Lacey uses interdisciplinary methods of analysis to show how, as the disparate colonies slowly came together as one ...