1st Edition
Apocalypse in British Art and Visual Culture in the Early Twentieth Century Some Revelation
By Thomas Bromwell
Copyright 2025
312 Pages
20 Color & 29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
312 Pages
20 Color & 29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
312 Pages
20 Color & 29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern British art from 1914 to 1945, addressing how and why practitioners in both religious and secular spheres turned to the subjects.
The volume examines British art and visual culture’s relationship with the then-contemporary anxieties and hopes regarding... Read more
Introduction
1. Terminology and the Eschatological Context
2. Death and Sacrifice
3. Resurrection and Redemption Beyond Death
4. Retrospective Apocalypse
5. The Kingdom and the Ultimate Paradise
6. Illustrating the Apocalypse
7. Prospective Apocalypse
8. Apocalypse Come
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Biography
Thomas Bromwell is a postdoctoral research fellow at tPaul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
