Includes brief biographies of artists. Unsolved mysteries : gothic tales from Fankenstein to the hair eating doll / Christoph Grunenberg -- Transgression and decay / Patrick McGrath -- Edifying ...

As supreme mirages of dark delight and horror, Goya’s late paintings and etchings were probably inspired by the imagery of gothic novels, which he must have read either in English or French, for the ...

The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...