Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many critics, the most exciting works were four oils and two sepia sketches of the view through his window by the German Romantic, Caspar David Friedrich, who died in 1840. Their misty vistas and eerily precise draftsmanship emphasize the mystic tie that binds Goethian romanticism to 20th century gothic surrealism...
...might hear a physics lecture surrounded by splinters of electronic music, or a description of the circumcision rites of remote African tribes described by a dry, rustling voice like the crumbling of yellowed paper." On the city's famed markets in the fall: "Rows of hare-gray, attenuated Gothic sculptures-cling to the portals of butcher shops, flanked by pheasants whose brilliant tail feathers swing and whip in the breeze...
Down the street from the Rococo, in a dimly lit basement nightclub, a shaggy combo, the Golden Boys, hammered out a lilting press release for Saint Vitus Cathedral, "Pride of all Gothic." The locale may be different, but anyone west of the Carpathians would recognize the tune as Winchester Cathedral...
...cone-shaped cathedral in concrete rises to a stately stained-glass lantern tower capped with a crown of finials, which lights up at night atop one of Liverpool's two hills. The other hill, half a mile away, is already topped by the Gothic spires of the Anglican cathedral...
...subject. But Eustace Chisholm is not unlike certain surrealistic paintings in its rather surprising lack of effect: though an atmosphere is evoked in sharp and crystalline terms and though figures are intensely and skillfully rendered, the reader remains unmoved. Fortunately, most men do not live in a neo-Gothic neverland where the entire range of human experience is dominated by a single obsession. Life is at once simpler and more complicated than that...