And instead of deploying
apocalyptic images of landfills overwhelmed by waste or melting ice caps swallowed by the sea, artists are finding new, conceptual ways to depict landscape.
Other apocalyptic images are shown: Mass destruction, Captain America's shattered shield, a heavily damaged Ultron, silver Iron Men flying out of the water and Thor choking out Tony Stark.
J. D. Dolan's memoir Phoenix bridges the silence surrounding the dramas of family life by juxtaposing them
with apocalyptic images of postwar America.
It is for this reason that I can not accept Dr. Altizer's
apocalyptic image.
Part wish fulfillment and part social moralizing, the film never resolves its point of view, but a few of
the apocalyptic images stay in the mind.
Ironically, this manufacture is so inconsequential and rote that what the filmmakers hope will tie their film together is a mere nattering and easily overlooked distraction that does little to support or enervate the power of
the apocalyptic images and ideas on parade.
The apocalyptic image is blatantly disrupted by a smaller painting in the upper right corner embedded into the piece.