Word: gothic
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...less skillful writer, turning the novel into mere sermon or satire. But Hollinghurst and his fictitious alter-ego are far too smart for that.Instead, we meet a brilliant, insecure Oxford grad with an exacting, reverential, and eventually obsessive eye for beauty, whether found in the heights of a Gothic cathedral, the curves of his first lover, Leo, or the electric rush of cocaine. He finds it quite often in the work of his hero, Henry James. The consciously Jamesian touches of both Nick and the novel itself—the hero at once inside and outside a society, the incisive...
...Anne Rice has written a novel about the life of Jesus, in the voice of Jesus--and then move on. Rice is, of course, the author of the supernatural thriller Interview with the Vampire and its many best-selling sequels, which intermingle sex and blood and death to great, gothic effect. But she's hardly the first novelist to "go there," as the kids say. Leo Tolstoy, Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Norman Mailer, to name a few, all took a run at Jesus, to say nothing of the eyebrow-raising suggestions found in The Da Vinci Code. One James...
...something truly stupid. Any entertainment where dry ice and theme music are essential to plot development is not the kind of thing one discusses in polite company. But still, I must confess: I love professional wrestling. To this day, I maintain a crush on The Raven, a scrawny little Gothic dude who always won the “Cage Matches” by beating his opponents over the head with metal folding chairs...
...missing pieces in a creative way: it features an animation of two scenes, February and April, from Les Très Riches Heures. The miniatures have been digitally redrawn and brought to life in a short video, through which the viewer is taken on a fly-through. The Late Gothic paintings lend themselves astonishingly well to this modern technique-it's hard not to feel chilled by the snowy February "landscape." "The Limbourg brothers are about graphic and atmospheric detail," says Pieter Roelofs, curator of the exhibition. "It is the painstaking art, often with one-hair brushes, of re-creating...
...missing pieces in a creative way: it features an animation of two scenes, February and April, from Les Très Riches Heures. The miniatures have been digitally redrawn and brought to life in a short video, through which the viewer is taken on a fly-through. The Late Gothic paintings lend themselves astonishingly well to this modern technique - it's hard not to feel chilled by the snowy February "landscape." "The Limbourg brothers are about graphic and atmospheric detail," says Pieter Roelofs, curator of the exhibition. "It is the painstaking art, often with one-hair brushes, of re-creating...