Thomas Kinkade The Artist in the Mall

Name: Thomas Kinkade The Artist in the Mall
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ISBN: 9780822348528

ISBN-10: 0822348527

ISBN-13: 9780822348528

Edition: 2011

Authors: Alexis L. Boylan

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Often featuring lighthouses, bridges, or quaint country homes, Thomas Kinkaders"s soft-focus landscapes have permeated American visual culture during the past twenty years, appearing on everything from bibles, to bed sheets, to Visa cards. The self-proclaimed Painter of Lighttrade; has achieved this feat by selling his work in his own shopping-mall galleries and through QVC, the Internet, and Christian stores. Kinkade is quite possibly the most collected artist in the United States. While many art-world and academic critics have dismissed him as a passing fad or marketing phenomenon, the contributors to this collection do not. Instead, they explore his work and its impact on contemporary…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Thomas Kinkade and the History of Protestant Visual Culture in America



Painter of the Right: Thomas Kinkade's Political Art



God in the Retails: Thomas Kinkade and Market Piety



Brand-Name Living from the Painter of Light



Purchasing Paradise: Nostalgic Longing and the Painter of Light



Repetition, Exclusion, and the Urbanism of Nostalgia: The Architecture of Thomas Kinkade



ï¿½A Temple Next Doorï¿½: The Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center



Thomas Kinkade's Heaven on Earth



Manufacturing ï¿½Masterpiecesï¿½ for the Market: Thomas Kinkade and the Rhetoric of High Art



Art Ethics: Thomas Kinkade and Contemporary Art



Bibliography


Contributors


Index