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English
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Seeing Joseph Smith : The Changing Image of the Mormon Prophet
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Sunstone
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December 2005
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140
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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18-27
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Rees discusses the various artistic representations of Joseph Smith over the past 170 years. Particularly in recent years, artists have created idealized images of Joseph which obscure his true physical appearance. To see Joseph in his true nature as a man with human failings, we must avoid hagiographic or idealizing portrayals, both artistic and literary.