The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour
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201460 minEncerrada

The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour

Emissora:BBC Four

Episódio Anterior

S01E03 - "Blood for Sale: Gothic Goes Global"

Foi ao ar em Nov 3, 2014, 9:00 PM

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Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.

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Status
Encerrada
Idioma
English
Duração
60 min
Estreia
October 20, 2014
Encerrada
November 3, 2014
Programação
Monday às 21:00

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Episódios (1 Temporada · 3 Episódios)

Liberty Diversity Depravity

In the middle of the 18th century - in England - an entirely surprising thing happened. Out of the Age of Enlightenment and Reason a monster was born - a Gothic obsession with monsters, ghouls, ghosts and things that go bump in the night. From restrained aristocratic beginnings to pornographic excesses, the Gothic revival came to influence popular art, architecture and literature.

Oct 20, 2014

60 min

The City and the Soul

As the Industrial Revolution promised more and more inexplicable wonders of the modern world, Gothic art and literature became both backward and forward looking. In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley warned of the dangers of how science could get out of control, while Sir Giles Gilbert Scott used Gothic architecture to memorialise Prince Albert as a medieval hero. Meanwhile, poets indulged in hallucinatory drugs to reach new Gothic heights. Where would it all end?

Oct 27, 2014

60 min

Blood for Sale: Gothic Goes Global

Gothic fantasy horror would be outstripped by real horror as the truth of mechanised warfare dawned on an innocent world in 1914. The language of Gothic would increasingly come to encapsulate the horrors of the 20th century - from Marx's analysis of 'vampiric' capitalism to Conrad's dark vision of imperialism and TS Eliot's image of The Wasteland, a Gothic narrative seemed to make more sense of the modern world more than any other.

Nov 3, 2014

60 min

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