The art of darkness : a treasury of the morbid, melancholic and macabre
S. Elizabeth2022
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'The Art of Darkness' is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks that have been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic and macabre. Throughout history, artists have been obsessed with darkness - creating works that haunt and horrify, mesmerise and delight and play on our innermost fears. Gentileschi took revenge with paint in Judith Slaying Holofernes while Bosch depicted fearful visions of Hell that still beguile. Victorian Britain became strangely obsessed with the dead and in Norway Munch explored anxiety and fear in one of the most famous paintings in the world. Today, the Chapman Brothers, Damien Hirst and Louise Bourgeois, as well as many lesser known artists working in the margins, are still drawn to all that is macabre. This book introduces sometimes disturbing and often beautiful artworks that indulge our greatest fears, uniting us as humans from century to century.
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Author:
S. Elizabeth, author
Imprint:
London : Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers, 2022.
Collation:
240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series title:
Art in the margins ; 2.
ISBN:
9780711269200 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1200219