Religious Imaging in Millennialist America: Dark Gnosis

by Ashley Crawford

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030075729
• ISBN13: 9783030075729
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"