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Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia (PDF eBook)


Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia (PDF eBook)

eBook by O'Hear, Natasha/O'Hear, Anthony

Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia (PDF eBook)

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ISBN:
9780191002953
Publication Date:
26 Jun 2015
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Imprint:
OUP Oxford
Pages:
368 pages
Format:
eBook
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Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia (PDF eBook)

Description

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 orclimate 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 inparticular. 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, Drer and Cranach's sixteenth-century Apocalypse woodcuts, and more recently a range of works byWilliam 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.

Contents

Revelations, Meaning and Interpretation ; 1. The Angel of the Apocalypse ; 2. The Lamb ; 3. The Four Horsemen ; 4. The Seven Seals ; 5. The Woman Clothed with the Sun ; 6. The Satanic Trinity ; 7. The Whore of Babylon ; 8. Armageddon, Millennium, and the Last Judgement ; 9. The New Jerusalem ; 10. The Apocalypse in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries ; Revelation: Artistic Reception and Relevance ; Glossary ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; Bibliography

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