Apocalypse: From Last Judgement to Climate Threat
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Keyword: 1400s-2000s, painting, sculpture, video, audio, AI, religion, death, international and Swedish artists.
Artists included: Albrecht Dürer, Johan Christian Dahl , John Martin, Ferdinand Hodler, Evelyn De Morgan, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Franz Radziwill, Roj Friberg, Anna von Hausswolff, Cajsa von Zeipel, Nastja Säde Rönkkös, Kim Simonsson, IC-98 among others
Size: 220 × 285 mm
Pages: 224
Format: hardcover
Language: English
Illustration: in color
Editor: Kristoffer Arvidsson
Preface: Patrik Steorn
Text: Kristoffer Arvidsson, Anna Davour, Anders Ekström, Åsa Ericsdotter, Emma Fraser, Håkan Håkansson, Eva Nygårds, Sofia Roberg & Patrik Steorn.
Book design: Ateljé Grotesk
Publisher: Appell Förlag
Pub Year: 2025
Weight: 1297 g
ISBN: 9789198912999
Exhibition: Göteborgs konstmuseum 2025-26
Description
Article no.: 9789198912999
The impermanence of life and the fear that everything will end. It is a recurring fear and feeling that has occupied many artists throughout the ages. This richly illustrated book makes visible common themes that have haunted us through the centuries.
From the publisher:
Apocalyptic fears are everywhere in the public conversation today, but our sense of impending threat is not new. Modern storm clouds include war, pandemics, climate threat, and AI. Further back in time, in the Christian worldview of the 1500s, prophesies about Judgement Day sparked worry and dread.
Thoughts of apocalypse have fascinated countless artists through the ages. Paradoxically enough, the idea of the end of the world has always fired the creative imagination. Here, this theme is explored from the viewpoint of the visual arts with forays into wider visual culture. Current concerns and moods are placed in a historical context spanning the Renaissance to today.
The contributors to this book are researchers, authors, and image creators. They examine the shape of apocalyptic thought in the Reformation, catastrophe mediation at the turn of the twentieth century, and the central role of naked bodies in Last Judgement pictures. They also write about Romanticism’s dramatic images, Symbolism’s fateful moods, dystopias, and science fiction. Reference is made to paintings, prints, sculpture, and video art but also to literature, film, and video games. And all is not dark: apocalypse can also be seen as an opportunity, a bridge to a new state of being.
From the publisher:
Apocalyptic fears are everywhere in the public conversation today, but our sense of impending threat is not new. Modern storm clouds include war, pandemics, climate threat, and AI. Further back in time, in the Christian worldview of the 1500s, prophesies about Judgement Day sparked worry and dread.
Thoughts of apocalypse have fascinated countless artists through the ages. Paradoxically enough, the idea of the end of the world has always fired the creative imagination. Here, this theme is explored from the viewpoint of the visual arts with forays into wider visual culture. Current concerns and moods are placed in a historical context spanning the Renaissance to today.
The contributors to this book are researchers, authors, and image creators. They examine the shape of apocalyptic thought in the Reformation, catastrophe mediation at the turn of the twentieth century, and the central role of naked bodies in Last Judgement pictures. They also write about Romanticism’s dramatic images, Symbolism’s fateful moods, dystopias, and science fiction. Reference is made to paintings, prints, sculpture, and video art but also to literature, film, and video games. And all is not dark: apocalypse can also be seen as an opportunity, a bridge to a new state of being.