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Picturing the Apocalypse - The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia (Paperback)
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Picturing the Apocalypse - The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia (Paperback)
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The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination
for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as The Lamb of God,
the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the
Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement,
the New Jerusalem, and the ubiquitous Angel of the Apocalypse have
captured the popular imagination. One can hardly open a newspaper
or click on a news web site without reading about impending
financial or climate change Armageddon, while the concept of the
Four Horsemen pervades popular music, gaming, and satire. Yet few
people know much about either the basic meaning or original context
of these concepts or the multiplicity of different ways in which
they have been interpreted by visual artists in particular. The
visual history of this most widely illustrated of all the biblical
books deserves greater attention. This book fills these gaps in a
striking and original way by means of ten concise thematic chapters
which explain the origins of these concepts from the book of
Revelation in an accessible way. These explanations are augmented
and developed via a carefully selected sample of the ways in which
the concepts have been treated by artists through the centuries.
The 120 visual examples are drawn from a wide range of time periods
and media including the ninth-century Trier Apocalypse,
thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman Apocalypse Manuscripts such as the
Lambeth and Trinity Apocalypses, the fourteenth-century Angers
Apocalypse Tapestry, fifteenth-century Apocalypse altarpieces by
Van Eyck and Memling, Durer and Cranach's sixteenth-century
Apocalypse woodcuts, and more recently a range of works by William
Blake, J. M. W. Turner, Max Beckmann, as well as film posters and
stills, cartoons, and children's book illustrations. The final
chapter demonstrates the continuing resonance of all the themes in
contemporary religious, political, and popular thinking, while
throughout the book a contrast will be drawn between those readers
of Revelation who have seen it in terms of earthly revolutions in
the here and now, and those who have adopted a more spiritual,
otherworldly approach.
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