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Gothic fashion. 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] Both male and female goths can wear dark eyeliner, dark nail polish and lipstick (most often black), and dramatic makeup. [2]
Depiction of a Gothic warrior battling Roman cavalry, from the 3rd century Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus. The Goths [a] were Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. [1] [2] [3] The etymology of the demonym "Goths" is closely related to that of the Swedish Gutes and ...
Goth is a music-based 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. Post-punk artists who presaged the gothic rock genre and helped develop and shape the subculture include Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, the Cure, and Joy Division .
The Visigoths were never called Visigoths, only Goths, until Cassiodorus used the term, when referring to their loss against Clovis I in 507. Cassiodorus apparently invented the term based on the model of the "Ostrogoths", but using the older name of the Vesi, one of the tribal names which the fifth-century poet Sidonius Apollinaris, had already used when referring to the Visigoths.
Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes. According to both Pitchfork [ 1] and NME, [ 2] proto-goth bands included Joy Division, [ 1][ 2][ 3] Siouxsie and the Banshees, [ 1][ 2] Bauhaus [ 1][ 2] and the Cure. [ 1][ 2] The term was first used by critic John Stickney in 1967 to ...
American Gothic (also known as American Gothic, Washington, D.C.) is a photograph of Ella Watson, an American charwoman, taken by the photographer Gordon Parks in 1942. It is a reimagining of the 1930 painting American Gothic by Grant Wood.
Late 12th century-16th century. Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Northern, Southern and Central Europe, never quite effacing more classical styles in Italy.
For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA ยง Brackets and transcription delimiters. Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter ), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century. [1]