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With aesthetic roots in pre-Victorian Gothic fiction, goth was adapted into a black-shrouded subculture by fans of melancholic 1980s British rock bands like the Cure and Cocteau Twins and has ...
A woman dressed in gothic style in June 2008. Goth is a subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. It was developed by fans of gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk music genre.
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Gothic book illustration, or gothic illumination, originated in France and England around 1160/70, while Romanesque forms remained dominant in Germany until around 1300. Throughout the Gothic period , France remained the leading artistic nation, influencing the stylistic developments in book illustration .
A goth woman at Kensal Green Cemetery open day, 2015 Girl dressed in a Victorian costume during the Whitby Gothic Weekend festival in 2013. Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the goth subculture. A dark, sometimes morbid, fashion and style of dress, [1] typical gothic fashion includes black dyed hair and black clothes. [1]
Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930), Art Institute of Chicago. Wood's best known work is his 1930 painting American Gothic, [14] which is also one of the most famous paintings in American art, [13] and one of the few images to reach the status of widely recognized cultural icon, comparable to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The ...
The band formed under the name Bauhaus 1919, in reference to the first operating year of the German art school Bauhaus, but they shortened this name within a year of formation. Their 1979 debut single " Bela Lugosi's Dead " is considered one of the harbingers of gothic rock music and has been influential on contemporary goth culture. [ 4 ]