A Nuclear Rapture:

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" A Nuclear Rapture: "
Natalie E. Phillips

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081606
Doc. No	:	LA125235
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-12341255‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Natalie E. Phillips
Title & Author	:	A Nuclear Rapture: [Article] : The Apocalyptic Art of Kenny Scharf\ Natalie E. Phillips
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	17/1-2
Page No	:	74–97
Abstract	:	The art of Kenny Scharf is paradoxical in nature. He combines carefree cartoon worlds with distinctly religious apocalyptic images of terrifying nuclear holocaust. The odd juxtapositions Scharf creates between the horrific and the benign are the artist’s means of coping with his own apocalyptic anxiety, as well as a critique of the self-destructive behavior of American society in the 1980s. At the time, Ronald Reagan’s strong doomsday rhetoric and his emphasis on the Arms Race collided with the AIDS Crisis, creating a specific 1980s brand of the apocalyptic. Scharf responds to this widespread, heightened anxiety by using the cartoon (and a cartoon-based religion of his own invention) as a purposefully ludicrous anesthetic to numb his apocalyptic fears.
Descriptor	:	1980s
Descriptor	:	apocalypse
Descriptor	:	apocalyptic
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	contemporary religion
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Kenny Scharf
Descriptor	:	New York
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	television
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-12341255‬