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پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA125235
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
A Nuclear Rapture:
General Material Designation
[Article]
Other Title Information
The Apocalyptic Art of Kenny Scharf
First Statement of Responsibility
Natalie E. Phillips
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The art of Kenny Scharf is paradoxical in nature. He combines carefree cartoon worlds with distinctly religious apocalyptic images of terrifying nuclear holocaust. The odd juxtapositions Scharf creates between the horrific and the benign are the artist's means of coping with his own apocalyptic anxiety, as well as a critique of the self-destructive behavior of American society in the 1980s. At the time, Ronald Reagan's strong doomsday rhetoric and his emphasis on the Arms Race collided with the AIDS Crisis, creating a specific 1980s brand of the apocalyptic. Scharf responds to this widespread, heightened anxiety by using the cartoon (and a cartoon-based religion of his own invention) as a purposefully ludicrous anesthetic to numb his apocalyptic fears.
SET
Date of Publication
2013
Physical description
74-97
Title
Religion and the Arts
Volume Number
17/1-2
International Standard Serial Number
1568-5292
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
1980s
Subject Term
apocalypse
Subject Term
apocalyptic
Subject Term
Art History
Subject Term
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
Subject Term
contemporary religion
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General
Subject Term
History
Subject Term
Kenny Scharf
Subject Term
New York
Subject Term
Religious Studies
Subject Term
television
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Natalie E. Phillips
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/15685292-12341255
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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