The Gothic

Anne Rice, Stephen King, Michel Foucault, Judith Halberstam, William Gibson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew O'Hagan, Umberto Eco, Slavoj Žižek, Sigmund Freud, Jean Baudrillard, Mike Kelley, Beatriz Colomina, James Sampson Meyer, Mary Shelley, Patrick McGrath, Jeff Wall, Jacques Lacan, Marina Warner, Hal Foster, Jerry Saltz, Damien Hirst, Amelia Jones, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Nancy Spector, Julia Kristeva, Edmund Burke, Mark Edmundson, Richard Dyer, Bret Easton Ellis, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Davenport-Hines, Douglas Crimp, Gianni Jetzer, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Carol J. Clover, Trevor J. Fairbrother, Anthony Vidler, Elisabeth Bronfen, Bruce Hainley, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Kate Ferguson Ellis, Kobena Mercer, Stan Douglas, Alex Farquharson, Jane D. Marsching, Mark Alice Durant, Nike Bätzner, Michael Cohen (kustos.), Tacita Dean, Christoph Grünenberg, Jonathan Jones (likovni kritik.), Shamim Momin, Andrew Ross (Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis.), Jaques Derrida — 2007

Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies. This collection of writings examines the pervasive and influential role of the Gothic in contemporary art, providing the first comprehensive overview of its uses within contemporary visual culture. The Gothic includes artists' writings by Mike Kelley, Damien Hirst, Tacita Dean, Jonathan Meese and Catherine Sullivan, complemented by literary extracts from Horace Walpole, William Gibson, Bret Easton Ellis and Stephen King, and theoretical writings by such key thinkers as Carol Clover, Beatriz Colomina, Julia Kristeva, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Marina Warner and Slavoj Žižek. Artists surveyed include Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Tacita Dean, Sue de Beer, Janet Cardiff, Mark Dion, Stan Douglas, Robert Gober, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Teresa Margolles, Jonathan Meese, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Gregor Schneider, Cindy Sherman, Catherine Sullivan, Andy Warhol, and Jane and Louise Wilson. Writers include Jean Baudrillard, Elizabeth Bronfen, Edmund Burke, Carol Clover, Beatriz Colomina, Douglas Crimp, Jacques Derrida, Richard Dyer, Umberto Eco, Bret Easton Ellis, Trevor Fairbrother, Alex Farquharson, Hal Foster, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, Christoph Grunenberg, Bruce Hainley, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Jonathan Jones, Mike Kelley, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Patrick McGrath, Kobena Mercer, James Meyer, Edgar Allan Poe, Andrew Ross, Jerry Saltz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Mary Shelley, Nancy Spector, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Vidler, Jeff Wall, Horace Walpole, Marina Warner, Anne Williams and Slavoj Žižek.