ABSTRACT
Like the religion it represented, the Mormon Panorama began with visions. This chapter explores how Mormon visual culture reconciled visions with visuality. As described in the chapter's introduction, Latter-day Saints understood visions as moments of revelation that were not just internal or mental impressions, but could be experienced through the body's senses, especially sight. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints never established a formal doctrinal or policy framework for visual art during the nineteenth century, but Latter-day Saints gradually delineated a broadly defined visuality of Mormonism. As artists explored the realms of vision and the visionary they brought their own perception as embodied, social beings, representing their individual and community values from their unique ideological perspectives.
