| Description |
219 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Director's Foreword / Milena Kalinovska -- Acknowledgments / Christoph Grunenberg -- Unsolved Mysteries: Gothic Tales from Frankenstein to the Hair Eating Doll / Christoph Grunenberg -- Transgression and Decay / Patrick McGrath -- Edifying Narratives: The Gothic Novel, 1764-1997 / Anne Williams -- Bela Lugosi's Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Either: Goth and the Glorification of Suffering in Rock Music / James Hannaham -- "Like Cancer in the System": Industrial Gothic, Nine Inch Nails, and Videotape / Csaba Toth -- Curtains / Dennis Cooper -- Shivers / Shawn Rosenheim -- An Inconsolable Darkness: The Reappearance and Redefinition of Gothic in Contemporary Cinema / John Gianvito -- Reflections on the Grotesque / Joyce Carol Oates -- ICA Staff -- ICA Board of Trustees -- ICA Honorary Trustees |
| Summary |
As the 20th century draws to a close, there is a Gothic theme penetrating much of contemporary art and culture. In the 1990s, American and European artists have moved increasingly towards the dark and uncanny side of the human psyche - the theatrical and grotesque, the violent and destructive. Taking its starting point and title from the Gothic novel, this book investigates the revival of a Gothic sensibility in contemporary art: in American and British fiction labelled the "New Gothic"; in film with its long tradition of horror; and in video, music, fashion, design, and underground culture. Gothic accompanies an exhibition at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, of 23 artists. Some employ a detached and reductive formal language to transmute images of excessive and gruesome violence. The old Gothic themes of the fantastic and pathological are infused with potency as they address concerns about the body, disease, voyeurism, and power |
| Notes |
Includes brief biographies of artists |
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Pages numbered in reverse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-19) |
| Subject |
Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.) -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Gothic.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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Goth culture (Subculture)
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Gothic revival (Art)
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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Horror in art -- Exhibitions.
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Horror in art.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Grunenberg, Christoph.
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Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.)
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| LC no. |
97071212 |
| ISBN |
0262071843 |
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