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Amihay, Ofra. "Urban Revelation in Paul Madonna’s Postsecular Comics." Comics and Sacred Texts. Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives. Eds. Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2018. 215–31. Added by: joachim (10/9/19, 4:40 PM) Last edited by: joachim (6/8/22, 7:07 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv7vcsv2.16 BibTeX citation key: Amihay2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "All over Coffee", City, Comic strip, Madonna. Paul, Philosophy, USA Creators: Amihay, Gamzou, Koltun-Fromm Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson) Collection: Comics and Sacred Texts. Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives |
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This essay explores the work of San Francisco-based artist Paul Madonna, his unique use of the tropes of imagetext and its implications concerning authority, readership and meaning in a post-modern, post-secular world. In reading through the absences in Madonna’s work – the absence of people in the landscape, the absence of an observing entity, the absence of a clear symbol and reference, this essay argues for a philosophical approach that underlies this work, one that can be dubbed “Durkheimian Existentialism.” In analyzing the ‘space’ Madonna creates in his work between an empty city landscape and human communication through the French thinker, Émile Durkheim, this essay argues for meaning behind the visual absence of people in Madonna’s comics: a celebration of people’s centrality and importance in a reality with no external meaning, to the extent that they themselves can become a revelation.
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