Crawford Religious Imaging in Millennialist America

Dark Gnosis
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-99172-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crawford, Ashley

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: American Gnosis.- Chapter 2. Delirium: A brief history of America’s religious founding(s).-Chapter 3: Dualism: An exploration of good and evil via David Lynch’s films.-Chapter 4 Delusion: On Mormon and Masonic symbolism in Matthew Barney’s CREMASTER films.- Chapter 5: Deconstruction: On Judaic law and the apocalypse of language in Ben Marcus’ The Flame Alphabet.- Chapter 6: 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.- Chapter 7. Dark Gnosis.

Über Autor(innen)

Ashley Crawford is a freelance cultural critic based in Melbourne, Australia, and is the author of a number of books on Australian culture.