Gothic: Transmutations of horror in late twentieth century art

Boston/ Cambridge: The Institute of Contemporary Art/ MIT Press, 1997. Hardback. Near Fine. First MIT Press edition. Large 8vo, pp. 219, [5] (numbered in reverse), incl. plentiful b/w and colour illustrations. Black cloth, spine lettered in maroon. Maroon endpapers. Edges gently toned. NYT clipping, Miles Unger's 'When Horror Is Healthy' (2001), and academic article, 'Cindy Sherman: Kristeva, Sherman, Butler, and the abject,'* laid in. In the original dust jacket: gentle creasing to spine ends and corners. Price sticker to rear panel. An excellent copy. Near fine/ near fine. Comprising essays by John Gianvito, Christoph Grunenberg, James Hannaham, Patrick McGrath, Shawn Rosenheim, Csaba Toth, and Anne Williams. Gothic accompanied the 1997 exhibition of the same name at ICA, Boston, which featured 23 artists, including Julie Becker, Monica Carocci, Dinos and Jake Chapman, Wolfgang Amadeus Hansbauer, Abigail Lane, Alexis Rockman, Cindy Sherman and Gary Simmons. From the academic library of Matthew Kieran (1968-), Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at the University of Leeds (2009-2021) and the ASA/BSA's Wollheim Lecturer for 2021. Kieran wrote variously on horror, obscenity and the arts. *Published as an online resource hosted by the University of Minnesota, no longer available.