TY - MANSCPT AU - Davenport-Hines,R.P.T. TI - Gothic: four hundred years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin SN - 0865475903 (pbk.) : PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - North Point Press KW - Gothic revival (Art) KW - Arts, Modern N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 ER -