1. Beautiful Decay in Crokes' Artwork
Through researching the Gothic preoccupation with the Grotesque and the Monstrous body, she was able to create comparisons between her own research into modern self-representation and self-image and the subjects of Gothic Literature. Croke's piece incorporates the Gothic, and in particular themes of the grotesque and the monstrous body through her use of human decay. ... Like Croke, these artists did not turn to the art of the gothic revival for inspiration but to the alternative tradition of the Gothic novel. Their work has been described to be within a 'gothic idiom' and was...
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