Thomas Kinkade

The Artist in the Mall
Herausgeber: Boylan, Alexis L

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays exploring Thomas Kinkades career, his artistic production, and its impact on contemporary art as part of the broader history of American visual culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348399
• ISBN-10: 082234839X
• Artikelnr.: 32795850

Autorenporträt

Alexis L. Boylan, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Alexis L. Boylan 1
Thomas Kinkade and the History of Protestant Visual Culture in America /
David Morgan 29
Painter of the Right: Thomas Kinkade's Political Art / Micki McElya 54
God in the Retails: Thomas Kinkade and Market Piety / Seth Feman 81
Brand-Name Living from the Painter of Light / Karal Ann Marling 107
Purchasing Paradise: Nostalgic Longing and the Painter of Light / Andrea
Wolk Rager 124
Repetition, Exclusion, and the Urbanism of Nostalgia: The Architecture of
Thomas Kinkade / Christopher E. M. Pearson 143
"A Temple Next Door": The Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center / Julia
Alderson 165
Thomas Kinkade's Heaven on Earth / Jeffrey Vallance 191
Manufacturing "Masterpieces" for the Market: Thomas Kinkade and the
Rhetoric of High Art / Monica Kjellman-Chapin 206
Art Ethics: Thomas Kinkade and Contemporary Art / Anna Brzyski 238
Bibliography 259
Contributors 275
Index 277