Author: Carey, Frances
Title: The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come
Description: Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1999. Hardcover. A black casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in beige and in white down a black spine. The free and pasted end pages are gray. Pages: (5), 6-352. Profusely illustrated with majority color images. "The Book of Revelation, with its vision of an apocalypse that is both destructive and redemptive, has provided a rich vein of imagery which remains a force in contemporary culture. This book examines the depiction of the Apocalypse in the visual arts over nearly 1,000 years. After the great medieval manuscript cycles, the pivotal point in the development of the pictorial tradition was Dürer's famous set of woodcuts, published in 1498. Apocalyptic imagery was quickly exploited for propaganda and satire by artists such as James Gillray, while Gillray's contemporary William Blake used it as part of a personal mythology that pervaded every aspect of his work." Contents are as follows: Millennium and apocalypse / Frank Kermode -- Biblical origins of the apocalyptic tradition / Norman Cohn -- The last things : representing the unrepresentable / Jonathan Alexander ; Catalogue / by Michael Michael and Jonathan Alexander with Martin Kauffmann -- The vision of the Apocalypse in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Peter Parshall ; Catalogue / by Giulia Bartrum with Rhoda Eitel-Porter and Frances Carey -- The English Apocalypse / David Bindman ; Catalogue / by David Bindman -- The apocalyptic imagination : between tradition and modernity / Frances Carey ; Catalogue / by Frances Carey -- Celluloid apocalypse / Ian Christie. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on top text block. Due date card on back pasted end page. Sticker on dust jacket on spine.

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