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Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin - Richard Davenport-Hines
Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin
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Beginning with the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage paintings of Salvator Rosa, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the evolution of the gothic imagination. This revelatory history ranges through art, architecture,... show more
Beginning with the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage paintings of Salvator Rosa, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the evolution of the gothic imagination. This revelatory history ranges through art, architecture, gardening, literature, photography, filmmaking, music, and clothing design, and takes in artists and creations as various as Byron, Horace Walpole, Goya, Frankenstein's monster, Edgar Allan Poe, Jackson Pollock, David Lynch, The Terminator, and The Cure.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780865475908 (0865475903)
Publisher: North Point Press
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, History, Reference, Criticism, Literary Criticism, Art, Culture, Sociology, Gothic
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Gothic: Four Hundred Years Of Excess, Horror, Evil, And Ruin - Richard Davenport-Hines
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Gothic: Four Hundred Years Of Excess, Horro, Evil, And Ruin - Richard Davenport-Hines
Gothic - Richard Davenport-Hines
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