AI SearchPicturing the apocalypse : | the book of Revelation in the arts over two millennia / (Record no. 104648)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780199689019 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0199689016 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | SDU |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | N8038.5 |
| Item number | O11 P 2015 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | O'Hear, Natasha, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Picturing the apocalypse : |
| Remainder of title | the book of Revelation in the arts over two millennia / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Natasha O'Hear and Anthony O'Hear. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2015 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 333 p : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 505 0# - Formatted Contents Note | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. The Angel of the Apocalypse: John's Journey and his Angelic Guides -- 2. The Lamb -- 3. The Four Horsemen -- 4. The Seven Seals: Angelic Destruction -- 5. The Woman Clothed with the Sun -- 6. The Satanic Trinity -- 7. The Whore of Babylon -- 8. Armageddon, the Millennium, and the Last Judgement -- 9. The New Jerusalem -- 10. The Apocalypse in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: A Survey of Different Approaches to Revelation in the Arts and Popular Culture. |
| 505 0# - Formatted Contents Note | |
| Formatted contents note | HKBU library |
| 518 ## - DATE/TIME AND PLACE OF AN EVENT NOTE | |
| DATE/TIME AND PLACE OF AN EVENT NOTE | YT2025 M09 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY | |
| Summary | The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as the Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the New Jerusalem, and the ubiquitous angels of the Apocalypse have captured the popular imagination. One can hardly open a newspaper or click on a news site without reading about impending financial or climate-change Armageddon, while the concept of the Four Horsemen pervades popular music, gaming, and satire. Yet few people know much about either the basic meaning or original context of these concepts or the multiplicity of different ways in which they have been interpreted by visual artists in particular. The visual history of this most widely illustrated of all the biblical books deserves greater attention. This book fills these gaps in a striking and original way by means of ten concise thematic chapters which explain the origins of these concepts from the book of Revelation in an accessible way. These explanations are augmented and developed via a carefully selected sample of the ways in which the concepts have been treated by artists through the centuries. The 120 visual examples are drawn from a wide range of time periods and media including the ninth-century Trier Apocalypse, thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman Apocalypse Manuscripts such as the Lambeth and Trinity Apocalypses, the fourteenth-century Angers Apocalypse Tapestry, fifteenth-century Apocalypse altarpieces by Van Eyck and Memling, Dürer and Cranach's sixteenth-century Apocalypse woodcuts, and more recently a range of works by William Blake, J.M.W. Turner, Max Beckmann, as well as film posters and film stills, cartoons, and children's book illustrations. The final chapter demonstrates the continuing resonance of all the themes in contemporary religious, political, and popular thinking, while throughout the book a contrast will be drawn between those readers of Revelation who have seen it in terms of earthly revolutions in the here and now, and those who have adopted a more spiritual, other-worldly approach-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Topical term | Apocalypse in art. |
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| Topical term | Apocalypse in art. |
| 700 1# - PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | O'Hear, Anthony, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 900 ## - Accession Number | |
| Accession Number | = C.1 SDU |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | English Books |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
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| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Available for Loans | General Books | MATRIX Library | MATRIX Library | General Eng/FL.3 | 22/09/2025 | Donation | N8038.5 .O35 2015 | 1000361236 | 22/09/2025 | C.1 | 22/09/2025 | English Books |