The Gothic

Beschrijving

Anthologie bevat bijdragen over Gothic Art en de invloed en betekenis van gothic in de moderne cultuur. - This collection of writings examines the pervasive and influential role of "the Gothic" in contemporary visual culture. The contemporary Gothic in art is informed as much by the stock themes of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic novel as it is by more recent permutations of the Gothic in horror film theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Goth subcultures. This reader brings together artists as different as Matthew Barney, Gregor Schneider, Louise Bourgeois, and Douglas Gordon