When pop culture meets art history, who wins? Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Miley Cyrus use Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights as a shortcut for modern anxiety, ultimately flattening complex science and art history into sanitized, marketable narratives.
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Framing the Apocalypse: The Commodification of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights in Before the Flood and “Give Me Love”
In an era defined by hyper-mediated communication and the collapse of traditional institutional authority, the translation of complex global issues increasingly relies on the cultural capital of ce…