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Religious imaging in millennialist America : dark gnosis
- Title
- Religious imaging in millennialist America : dark gnosis / Ashley Crawford.
- Author
- Crawford, Ashley
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- viii, 316 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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"--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: American gnosis -- Delirium: a brief history of America's religious founding(s) -- Dualism: an exploration of good and evil via David Lynch's films -- Delusion: on Mormon and Masonic symbolism in Matthew Barney's CREMASTER films -- Deconstruction: on Judaic law and the apocalypse of language in Ben Marcus' The Flame Alphabet -- Dereliction and defecation: on the religious underpinnings in Matthew Barney's Subliming Vessel and Ben Marcus' Leaving the Sea and the apocalyptic imaging of Matthew Barney's River of Fundament -- Dark gnosis.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-54
- ISBN
- 331999171X
- 9783319991719
- OCLC
- 1044979801
- Author
- Crawford, Ashley, author.
- Title
- Religious imaging in millennialist America : dark gnosis / Ashley Crawford.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Crawford, Ashley. Religious imaging in millennialist America. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] 9783319991726 (OCoLC)1053888161
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-54