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Informationen zum Autor Alexis L. Boylan is Assistant Professor in Residence in the Art and Art History Department and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Connecticut. Klappentext A collection of essays exploring Thomas Kinkades career, his artistic production, and its impact on contemporary art as part of the broader history of American visual culture. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays exploring Thomas Kinkades career! his artistic production! and its impact on contemporary art as part of the broader history of American visual culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Alexis L. Boylan 1 Thomas Kinkade and the History of Protestant Visual Culture in America / David Morgan 29 Painter of the Right: Thomas Kinkade's Political Art / Micki McElya 54 God in the Retails: Thomas Kinkade and Market Piety / Seth Feman 81 Brand-Name Living from the Painter of Light / Karal Ann Marling 107 Purchasing Paradise: Nostalgic Longing and the Painter of Light / Andrea Wolk Rager 124 Repetition, Exclusion, and the Urbanism of Nostalgia: The Architecture of Thomas Kinkade / Christopher E. M. Pearson 143 "A Temple Next Door": The Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center / Julia Alderson 165 Thomas Kinkade's Heaven on Earth / Jeffrey Vallance 191 Manufacturing "Masterpieces" for the Market: Thomas Kinkade and the Rhetoric of High Art / Monica Kjellman-Chapin 206 Art Ethics: Thomas Kinkade and Contemporary Art / Anna Brzyski 238 Bibliography 259 Contributors 275 Index 277
