Thomas Kinkade and the History of Protestant Visual Culture in America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Thomas Kinkade and the History of Protestant Visual Culture in America 29
7. Painter of the Right: Thomas Kinkade’s Political Art 54
8. God in the Retails: Thomas Kinkade and Market Piety 81
9. Brand-Name Living from the Painter of Light 107
10. Purchasing Paradise: Nostalgic Longing and the Painter of Light 124
11. Repetition, Exclusion, and the Urbanism of Nostalgia: The Architecture of Thomas Kinkade 143
12. “A Temple Next Door”: The Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center 165
13. Thomas Kinkade’s Heaven on Earth 191
14. Manufacturing “Masterpieces” for the Market: Thomas Kinkade and the Rhetoric of High Art 206
15. Art Ethics: Thomas Kinkade and Contemporary Art 238
16. Bibliography 259
17. Contributors 275
18. Index 277