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The Artistic Troll
I love studying the Gothic. I love exploring the twisted realms of the imagination. I love the creatures hidden in the pages of books that follow me home at night. (I can live with the shadows on my walls transforming … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Fun stuff
Tagged aesthetics, ecoGothic, Faeries, Folklore, Folktales, Gothic novels, Holly Black, landscape, Neil Gaiman, Nordic, painting, Scandinavia, Trolls
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CFP Books of Blood: Collaborative Project and Funding Bid
*Extended Deadline – submissions by 1st November 2015* All humans ‘are books of blood—wherever you open us, we’re red’ (Clive Barker). If our bodies are books of blood, then they can be read; we invite such readings and contributions where … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences, Critical thoughts, Events, OGOM Research, OGOM: Books of Blood, Publications
Tagged anthropology, art, blood, CFP, disease, Film, gender, music, myth, painting, philosophy, popular culture, race, science, sexuality, theology, TV, video games, Wellcome Trust
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Dead Letter: The Aesthetics of Horror
Dead Letter: The Aesthetics of Horror ‘An investigative essay into the value of artistic representations of gore.’ A very thoughtful essay on the ethics and aesthetics of representing the horrific and the profoundly unpleasant in art by Jude D. Russo.