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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: art of darkness
    sub title: a treasury of the morbid, melancholic and macabre
  name:
    name part: S. Elizabeth
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: VerfasserIn
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    place:
      place term: XA-GB
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 239 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
  abstract: "The Art of Darkness is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks from throughout history which 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 (The Scream, 1893). 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. From Dreams & Nightmares to Existential Dread, Murder & Mayhem to Supernatural Beings - this book introduces sometimes disturbing and often beautiful artworks that indulge our greatest fears, uniting us as humans from century to century. But, while these themes might scare us - can't they also be heartening and beautiful? Exploring and examining the artworks with thoughtful and evocative text, S. Elizabeth offers insight into each artist's influences and inspirations, asking what comfort can be found in facing our demons? Why are we tempted by fear and the grotesque? And what does this tell us about the human mind? Of course, sometimes there is no good that can come from the sensibilities of darkness and the sickly shivers and sensations they evoke. These are uncomfortable feelings, and we must sit for a while with these shadows - from the safety of our armchairs"--Publisher's description
  table of contents: Introduction: in praise of shadow -- Part one. It's all in your mind -- Dreams & nightmares -- Psychological distress -- Whispers from the void -- Part two. The human condition -- Ailments & afflictions -- Depravity & destruction -- Matters of mortality -- Part three. The world around us -- Darkness in bloom -- Where the wild things are -- Mysterious landscapes, ruins & ravaged places -- Part four. Visions from beyond. Gods & monsters -- The restless dead & other eerie entities -- Dark arts & forbidden mysteries.
  note: S. Elizabeth
  note: "The Art of Darkness is a visually rich sourcebook featuring over 200 carefully curated artworks inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic and macabre."--Page 4 of cover
  note: Includes bibliographical references (page 236) and index
  note: Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet FID XA-DE-BW pdager DE-16
  subject:
    topic: Art
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Art
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Melancholy in art
  subject:
    topic: Art - Thèmes, motifs
  subject:
    topic: Art - Psychologie
  subject:
    topic: Mélancolie dans l'art
  subject:
    topic: theme
  subject:
    topic: Art - Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Art - Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Melancholy in art
  classification: N71
  classification: 701/.15
  classification: KUNST
  classification: 02.50
  classification: 20.08
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    title info:
      title: The art of darkness
    name:
      name part: S. Elizabeth
    origin info:
      publisher: London : Frances Lincoln, 2022
    physical description:
      extent: 1 Online-Ressource (233 ungezählte Seiten)
    note: Online-Ausgabe
    identifier: (DE-627)1817955225
  identifier: 9780711269200
  identifier: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz1862679789inh.htm
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    record content source: DE-627
    record creation date: 231012
    record change date: 20240813163521.0
    record identifier: 1862679789
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger