Religious Imaging in Millennialist America

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Religious Imaging in Millennialist America is written by Ashley Crawford and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319991728 (ISBN 10) and 9783319991726 (ISBN 13).

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.