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American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century, and has been widely parodied in American popular culture. [1] [2]
American Gothic is an American horror series created by Shaun Cassidy. The show first aired on CBS on September 22, 1995, and was cancelled after a single season on July 11, 1996. [ 1 ] The show received positive reviews and has been regarded as a cult classic.
Ella Watson (March 27/29, 1883 – April 3, 1980) was an American janitor and charwoman who was famously the subject of Gordon Parks' photographic series including American Gothic in 1942, among at least 90 other photographs. [1] According to the Gordon Parks Foundation, "Parks asked if he could take Watson’s picture.
American Gothic is a 1974 psychological horror novel by American writer Robert Bloch, a fictionalized portrayal of real life serial killer H. H. Holmes, who is renamed "G. Gordon Gregg" for the story.
American Gothic is a 1988 slasher film directed by John Hough and starring Rod Steiger, Yvonne De Carlo, Janet Wright, and Michael J. Pollard.Its plot follows a group of travelers who become stranded on an island where they find themselves in the clutches of a demented family of murderers.
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 ...
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The dungeons and endless corridors that are a hallmark of European Gothic are far removed from American Gothic, in which castles are replaced with caves. Lloyd-Smith reinterprets Moby-Dick to make this point convincingly. [4] Early settlers were prone to fear linked to the unexplored territory which surrounded, and in some cases, engulfed them.