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.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2013
توصيف ظاهري
74-97
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
17/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
1980s
اصطلاح موضوعی
apocalypse
اصطلاح موضوعی
apocalyptic
اصطلاح موضوعی
Art History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
contemporary religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Kenny Scharf
اصطلاح موضوعی
New York
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
television
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