Beginning with the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage paintings of Salvator Rosa, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the evolution of the gothic imagination. This revelatory history ranges through art, architecture, gardening, literature, photography, filmmaking, music, and clothing design, and takes in artists and creations as various as Byron, Horace Walpole, Goya, Frankenstein's monster, Edgar Allan Poe, Jackson Pollock, David Lynch, The Terminator, and The Cure.
- ISBN10 0865475903
- ISBN13 9780865475908
- Publish Date 15 June 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint North Point Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English