Terror vs Horror (using Stranger Things)
————-Gothic Music by Blutengel (thanks Rogue)
—–
Gothic Dance by Bio Red Master (also thanks Rogue)
—–
Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1982):
————————————-
Oct 7, 2015
Is this uncanny?
George Tooker’s “The Subway” from 1950. CreditWhitney Museum of American Art
———————————-
Speaking of interpretations, here is a short interpretation of Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio”:
[Sept 25, 2015] Sculpture from Katsuyo Aoki (Hi-Fructose vol 21 2011)
From the article in Hi-Fructose (2011): The artist Katsuyo Aoki says that she is “most inspired by periods in art history that represent times of existential transition and upheaval in the art world (not to mention ones of significant flourish): the baroque and rococo, the gothic, and the expressionist niche of the postmodern” (47). We can see the pointy ridges and extra curves remind us of the baroque (overly ornate to the point of being ridiculous), and taken together with the hollowness of the bones and the strange jewelry at the point of this porcelain skull and in the mouth, this is most certainly meant to heighten our emotions, hence it is a gothic representation of death. This is not an everyday skull.
Peanuts comic:
The Weekly Goth is here!
The Weekly Goth is a space for students to post their ideas on the gothic. More specifically, each student will be asked to present a Weekly Goth at least once this semester. The presentation should explain to the class what the example is and why it is gothic. It may help to use the example to explain one of our technical gothic terms. Students should post a brief explanation(100-150 words) of the object under review. Check out a good example: Katsuyo Aoki’s skull sculpture below. This assignment will be part of the participation grade.