{"id":7722,"date":"2004-03-15T08:22:58","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T08:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/the_bestselling_artist_ever.html"},"modified":"2004-03-15T08:22:58","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T08:22:58","slug":"the_bestselling_artist_ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/the_bestselling_artist_ever.html","title":{"rendered":"The bestselling artist ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The answer might surprise you&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/3501430.stm\">The illustrator of the Good News Bible<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/39876000\/gif\/_39876290_cross203.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Similarly, the charm of the illustrations is in their unassuming simplicity. Few of her characters have much in the way of faces &#8211; or any other detail &#8211; and yet they are full of life and character, and can be very evocative. Vallotton&#8217;s aim, she says, is &#8220;to give maximum expression with a minimum of lines&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/articles\/wo_jenkins030504.asp?p=0\">a review of a new book on the Christian media counterculture:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In Shaking the World for Jesus, to be published next month, media scholar Heather Hendershot offers a complex picture of the kinds of popular culture being produced by and for evangelicals. Frustrated by network television, cultural conservatives have created their own animated series and sitcoms distributed on video. They have produced their own science fiction, horror, mystery, and romance novels, all of which can be purchased online. And alarmed by contemporary video games, they have produced their own\u2014such as Victory at Hebron, where players battle Satan or rescue martyrs. <\/p>\n<p>The emergence of new media technologies has allowed evangelicals some degree of autonomy from commercial media, allowing them to identify and enjoy media products that more closely align with their own worldviews. Technology has also lowered the costs of production and distribution, enabling what remains essentially a niche market to sustain a remarkably broad range of cultural products. Of course, as \u201cniche markets\u201d go, this one may be astonishingly large. According to a recent ABC News poll, 83 percent of Americans consider themselves to be Christians, and Baptists (only one of the evangelical denominations) make up 15 percent of the nation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\">Bookslut Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer might surprise you&#8230;. The illustrator of the Good News Bible Similarly, the charm of the illustrations is in their unassuming simplicity. Few of her characters have much in the way of faces &#8211; or any other detail &#8211; and yet they are full of life and character, and can be very evocative. 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