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Gothic : Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin --illustrated by Davenport-Hines, Richard - 1999
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New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1999. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Red cloth with gilt on spine, tight clean and square, headband, 438 pages, illustrated through-out in b & w, with 8 pages of colour plates, dust jacket has minor edge wear. "Richard Davenport-Hines traces the potent creative impulse of the gothic imagination from its modern origins in the seventeenth century to the present day. Gothic is about exaggeration; about stepping beyond limits and securities into the immoderate. Gothic is a book about painters, gardeners, architects, poets, novelists, photographers, film-makers, musicians and clothes designers." Contents include: Prologue / The Spectre Still Will Haunt Us / Stark Mad With Gardens / The Strength of Backward-Looking Thoughts / They Are Come to Tear Me to Pieces / The Dead Have Exhausted Their Power of Deceiving / A Race of Devils / Wild Passion for Wounding / This Man Belongs to Me I Want Him / Family Evil / We'd Rather Have the Iceberg than the Ship / Wild Mood Swings / Sources / index. Check out the scans... First North Point Press . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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New York: North Point Press; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Cloth, 438 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, edges lightly soiled. Stray pen mark/one leaf, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket with moderate shelfwear. Gothic revival in art. "In this book, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the history of the gothic sensibility, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The birth of gothic can be said to date to the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage scenes depicted by the painter Salvator Rosa. With their precipices, ruined castles, dark caves, and contorted trees, they provided the original visual and imaginative frame of the genre. Whatever the medium - art, architecture, gardening, literature, photography, filmmaking, music, clothing design - gothic is about exaggeration, about immoderation. This revelatory history ranges across genres and eras, taking in figures as various as Lord Byron,…
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New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. First American Edition. Hardcover. 086547544X . First American edition. Richard Davenport-Hines traces the history of "gothic sensibilty" in art, architecture, literature, film, fashion and other endeavors since the 17th century. Generously illustrated in black & white throughout, along with a section of gloss plates bearing color illustrations. This work originally published in the UK by Fourth Estate. --- In full red paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Black dust jacket repeats the title. --- An about Fine copy: clean, tightly-bound, bright and lacking apparent damages. Unclipped jacket ($35) also in great shape; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector (which has mild rubbing). (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for any shipment other than by USPS Media Mail in the US.) ; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (10), 438 pages .
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