'The Gothic is the first anthology to survey the pervasive role of "the Gothic" in current art and visual culture. Today's Gothic takes its cue not only from tis historic themes — the supernatural, transgression, patriarchy and the female heroine — but equally from contemporary cultural sources as diverse as horror film theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis and Goth subcultures. 

'Why Gothic? Why now? Influential artists, critics and cultural theorists investigate the corpus.

'Artists surveyed: Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Janet Cardiff, Tacita Dean, Sue De Beer, Mark Dion, Stan Douglas, Robert Gober, Douglas Gordon, Richard Hawkins, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Teresa Margolles, Paul Pfeiffer, Gregor Schneider, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and Rachel Wihteread.

'Writers include: Jean Baudrillard, Elisabeth Bronfen, Carol J. Clover, Beatriz Colomina, Douglas Crimp, Jacques Derrida, Richard Dyer, Umberto Eco, Bret Easton Ellis, Trevor Fairbrother, Alex Farquharson, Hal Foster, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, Christoph Grunenberg, Bruce Hainley, Amelia Jones, Mike Kelley, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Patrick McGrath, Kobena Mercer, James Meyer, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice, Andrew Ross, Mary Shelley, Nancy Spector, Anthony Vidler, Jeff Wall, Marina Warner, and Slavoj Žižek.' (Back cover)

The Gothic is one of the Documents of Contemporary Art series, co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Other sourcebooks of the same series are also available in the Archive. For more details, please go to this page.
Alternative title

Documents of Contemporary Art

Access level

Onsite

Location code
REF.WHC
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2007

No of pages

208

ISBN / ISSN

9780262731867

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction: How Deep Is Your Goth? Gothic Art in the Contemporary - Gilda WILLIAMS

A Thematic Framework

This Year's Goth: A Short History of the Gothic in Contemporary Art

Modern Gothic: Death, Excess and Terror

'The Creature': Alien Beings and Alien Bodies

Transgressing Females and the Name of the Father

The Uncanny: Doubles and Other Ghosts

Castles, Ruins and Labyrinths

The Gothic
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The Gothic