Gothic effigy : a guide to dark visibilities /: a guide to dark visibilities. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Annwn Jones.
• Authors: Jones, David Annwn
• Contents: IntroductionChapter 11.1 Gothic and Gothic Revival architecture 1.2 Graveyards, crypts and mausolea 1.3 Ruins 1.4 Follies and gardens 1.5 Décor, domestic furniture and uncanny household items 1.6 Theatre and stage 1.7 Masquerade, Halloween and Gothic as pageant and immersive spectacle 1.8 Dance and mime Chapter 22.1 Early painting to the eighteenth century 2.2 Painting: Goya to Giger and after 2.3 Engravings: icons of ancestral fear 2.4 The macabre graphic art of the Blue books and Penny Dreadfuls 2.5 Revivified and spectral portraits: Otranto’s yawning picture to M.R. James’s ‘The Mezzotint’2.6 Uncanny signs and posters Chapter 33.1 Sculptors and statuary 3.2 Wax simulacra 3.3 Dolls, effigies, mommets and poppets 3.4 Moving statues and automata 3.5 Tableaux vivants and poses plastiques 3.6 Cabinets of curiosity 3.7 Postmodern Gothic sculptures and figurines 3.8 Taxidermy Chapter 44.1 Ghost machines: the Satanic Eidophusikon and peepshows 4.2 Phantasmagoria and magic lanterns: E-A Roberston’s lantern-of-fear 4.3 Stereoscope ‘Diableries’ 4.4 ‘Pepper’s Ghost’ and the domestic lantern horror show 4.5 Eerie sight machines, zoetropes and the whirling witches of Plateau’s Phenakistoscope 4.6 Gothic Kinetoscopes to early American horror film 4.7 Gothic films, from silents to electronic movie making 4.8 Gothic TV Chapter 55.1 Gothic comics, graphic novels and icons 5.2 Silhouettes, Ombres Chinoises and shadowgraphs 5.3 Damnable lithographs: Louis Boulanger’s Satanic ‘La Ronde de Sabbat’and the dark barbarism of the ‘lapidary art’ 5.4 Dressed, adorned and altered prints and books 5.5 Leporellos, moving books and monstrous concertina texts 5.6 Gothic calendars Chapter 66.1 The dark hold of Daguerreotypes and early photography 6.2 Mourning and spirit photographs 6.3 Gothic collage, photocollage and shadow boxes 6.4 Haunts, great houses, cadavers and ossuaries: the photography of Simon Marsden and Paul Koudounaris 6.5 Modern photography Chapter 77.1 Gothic scripts, fonts, ciphers and calligraphy 7.2 A dark chaos of marbled papers 7.3 Gothic labelling, packaging and ads 7.4 Graffiti, curses, sigils and heraldry 7.5 Tapestries and embroidery 7.6 Book covers and magazine covers 7.7 Record and CD cover art Chapter 88.1 Gothic costume, ancient and modern 8.2 Gothic jewellery 8.3 ‘Gothic toys through Gothic glass’ 8.4 Masks, weapons, and athames 8.5 Playing cards and the Tarot Chapter 99.1 New media: the art of Gothic gaming and horror apps 9.2 Ghost trains 9.3 Horror environments and itineraries, escape rooms, Halloween hayrides and tourist attractions 9.4 Gothic installations 9.5 Performance art, body art, tattoos and facepaint Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 709.022; Art, Gothic; Decoration and ornament, Gothic; Gothic literature; Gothic revival (Art); Gothic revival (Literature); Goth culture (Subculture)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526101242; 9781526101235
• Related ISBNs: 9781526101228
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