Religious Imaging in Millennialist America: Dark Gnosis

Religious Imaging in Millennialist America: Dark Gnosis
ISBN-10
3319991728
ISBN-13
9783319991726
Category
Social Science
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2018-09-19
Publisher
Springer
Author
Ashley Crawford

Description

Ashley Crawford investigates how such figures as Ben Marcus, Matthew Barney, and David Lynch—among other artists, novelists, and film directors—utilize religious themes and images via Christianity, Judaism, and Mormonism to form essentially mutated variations of mainstream belief systems. He seeks to determine what drives contemporary artists to deliver implicitly religious imagery within a ‘secular’ context. Particularly, how religious heritage and language, and the mutations within those, have impacted American culture to partake in an aesthetic of apocalyptism that underwrites it.

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