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Grotesque Timeline
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Leonardo da Vinci’s studies of grotesques
Caricature by Bartolomeo Passerotti
Valverde de Amusco; Anatomia del corpo humano, Etching (hOLY SHIT)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Dulle Griet (Mad Meg)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Triumph of Death
Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Nicolaes Tulp
Salvator Rosa - The Temptation of Saint Anthony
thomas bartholin anatomia reformata - found this by accident but holy sHIT
Physica Curiosa; 1600 page work that contains engravings and description of all known monstrosities at the time
ROBERT MCGINNIS (American b.1926). Wuthering Heights, paperback cover
Francis Bacon - Painting (1946)
Ed Gein's Human Flesh Masks, 1957
The House is Black by Forugh Farrokzad (1963)
Jesus Christ Superstar? (1973 movie)
Marina Abramović – Rhythm 0, 1974
Susperia 1977 (grotesque by parodying/creating the ironic of the 80s horror movie; exaggeration of reactions, “fakeness” of the blood while also implementing the jumpscare-esque shock w certain events)
Eraserhead (1977) (specifically the eraserhead baby)
The Thing, 1982, John Carpenter (director); face splitting
“Medusa” by Tim Prince; his general creations
Appearance in Gyo, also abt the grotesque
Shrek (2001)
Patricia Piccinini – Young Family, 2002
the fucking blobfish (2003) n everyone was like omg it’s so ugly but also kinda cute
Stygiomedusa gigantea, goblin shark when feeding, Sarcastic Fringehead, Northern Stargazer, black Dragonfish, Gulper Eel,
FUCKING MUDSKIPPERS; date of when i was traumatized
James R Ford – Bogey Ball, 2004
Cult of Dionysus by The Orion Experience (2006)
Peter-Joel Witkin – Ars Moriendi (2007)
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Fucking Hell (2008)
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/why-beauty-matters/ (2009)
Bello Bello Bello! by Pili Alvarez (2013)
Don (John?) Kenn Gallery (2013+?)
Intelligence Squared: A History of Beauty and Ugliness at Selfridges London (2014; videographer may be inept): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAMfbOKyj0
What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
Penny Dreadful (2014+)
Ivan Da Silva: "The relative nature of ugliness and beauty" (2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPnv3GWnbng
Michael Kvium: Ugly vs Beauty (2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8NiLQv8yxg
Ken Currie, Hiroshima Smile 2 (2015)
RED GHOST, Gerald Brom, 2016
Layers of Fear (2016)
Oh Mona Lisa You’re An Overated Piece of Shit song (2016)
The Ugliness of Beauty - What is Beauty? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cbB72464To (is this related to ugliness or am i gonna have to work backwards with this one??) (2016)
Thomas Nast Communist Skeleton (2017 meme I’m back on my bullshit, Be Gay Do Crime)
Loving Vincent??? (2017)
Creeped Out (2017)
The Cats Movie Trailer, the Sonic Movie original teaser, (2019)
Cal Kearns Instagram; childhood cartoon series - 2019+
Disgusting Food Museum (Sweden; open now - other locations coming soon)
The Morbid Anatomy Library; new York (make appt to visit, maybe interview someone as to why create the collection)
Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, (macabre curiosity collection)
The Face of Fear. Amazing Makeup FX work by Fancy dress prosthetics by Kelly O'Dell.
The Wolf Man
House
Crimson Peak (DIRECTED BY GUILLERMO DEL TORO THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN)
Interview with the Vampire (this is literally??? so funny????? it's supposed to be horror but wtf am i supposed to do looking at brad pitt with long hair get seduced by tom cruise????????) - the unintentional seriousness = gothic camp!
The Addams Family?
Matt Mahurin?
Lady Gaga's meat dress
Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)
Hunchback of Notre Dame (live action)
Sophia humanoid robot
The Digestion Process from The Blob (1988)
Frank’s Resurrection in Hellraiser (1987)
The Orgy from Society (1989)
The Chestburster from Alien (1979)
The Final Transformation from The Fly (1986)
Slenderman
Silent Hill
Anatomy
Sonix.exe
Limbo/Inside
SCP-087 (and SCP-087-B)
Lone Survivor
Thumper???
Mad Father, The Witch's House
Intact nervous systems on display
Valerie Hegarty‘s artwork
Damien Hirst,God Knows Why, 2005
Jana Sterbak, "Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorexic"
“The Taste – The Count of Monte Cristo,” Francesco Albano
Arpad Slancik artwork
“Pull Yourself Together", Sarah Best
Sarah Sitkin‘s work (Infection, 2016, etc。)
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1975 SALÒ
Woman Weeping - Pablo Picasso
The Grotesque: International Group Exhibition
Sedlec Ossuary,Prague
Indiana Medical History Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
Anne Hardy's photographed rooms
MeowWolf surrealism (when it goes from fun to ok wait fuck um like the eyes room i yeeted myself out of REAL quick)
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
eraserhead meme
horror
badly painted cats 1
badly painted cats 2
bishop fish
medieval cats
alignment chart of animated animals
alfred kubin, danger, 1901
alfred kubin
alfred kubin
alfred kubin, jede nacht besucht uns ein traum (Every Night a Dream Visits Us), 1900
alfred kubin, into the unknown
Das Grausen [The Horror], alfred kubin,
alfred kubin, SEEGESPENST (SEA MONSTER)
alfred kubin, Der Hunger
Alfred Kubin, Lady on the Horse 1901 (pen and ink, wash, and spray on paper).
picasso cats
sandy hook
full on monet
medusa
everyone who loves lit is the same person
snart
resurgence of neodadaism
millennial art is visual dada memes
white men and art
If Beauty Were a Book, Allen Williams
polite cat, painted
surrealistic celebrity photo
unattractive face
"if gross + scary horror guys were attractive" - youtube video
kardashians old pics
sit 27hrs for a painting
halloween
coleman frog
cats by picasso which look like mothsprout's
Joshua Reynolds, “‘Blinking Sam’ Johnson'” (THIS IS A FUCKING MEME WAIT)
Fuseli’s The Nightmare
Plate 68 'Los Caprichos': Pretty teacher! (Linda maestra!), Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
Freak shows of 19th cent.
Theodore Gericault – Study of the Heads of Torture Victims, 1818
Théodore Géricault - anatomical pieces (1819)
Jeremy Bentham’s preserved body and head, put on display
19th century surgery without anaesthetic; 1841 textbooks, etc.
Les Diables Froids, Félicien Rops, 1860
A set design for Weber’s Der Freischutz from 1866
The Hanged Man at the Bell Illustration for The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak by Charles de Coster, Felicien Rops, 1867
Autodafé Painting by Mihály Zichy (1868)
Skeleton Serving Milk to a Hungry Family Swill Milk 1878
Felicien Rops, Pornokrates, 1878
Mihály Zichy (1827-1906), A kísértetek órája (The ghost clock), detail, 1880(?)
Thomas Nast Communist Skeleton (1880 ori ver. + 2017 meme I’m back on my bullshit, Be Gay Do Crime)
Félicien Rops, Parodie Humain, 1881 (images shows sketch ver)
Felicien Rops, Les Sataniques. Satan semant l'ivraie
Gustave Dore “The Raven” Poe illustrations from 1883
Etched engraving, Félcien Rops, 1883, Le Vice Suprême
John Heith Hanged In Tombstone, AZ, 1884 (Photograph)
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Ilya Repin (attacked twice)
George Roux, “Spirit” 1885
Crucified Man by Dore Gustave, Illustration from "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri Paris, Published 1885
The Haunted Lane, Melander & Bro. 1889.
Jakub Schikaneder - Murder in the House (1890)
Jean Delville, The Idol of Perversity (L’idole de la perversite), 1891
Odilon Redon - Smiling Spider (1891)
Monreale, Jakub Schikaneder - 1893
Oskar Zwintscher - “Grief” (“Woe”), 1898
Alphonse Mucha - “The Suicide of Peter from the Vine”, 1898.
Sister Gudule and Esmeralda - Luc-Oliver Merson (unknown date; before 1920 prob closer to end of 19th cent)
A beggar, perhaps disfigured during World War I, sits on the street (undated photo, early 1900s); Bain News Service/Library of Congress
Refuse piles up at the entrance to the tenements at 53 to 59 MacDougal Street, February 1912; Lewis Wickes Hine/Library of Congress
Children play near a dead horse left to rot in the street, circa 1905; Wikimedia Commons
Dead bodies lie in an alley off Monroe Street following a nearby fire, December 1913; Library of Congress
Man killed by a bomb at an anarchist rally in Union Square on March 28, 1908.
The Patriarch and Death, Marcel Roux, 1900
Illustration for Viy by R.Shteyn (1901)
Accidental Decap Of Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum, 1901 (Photograph)
Poe illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn (published 1902)
Mutter mit totem Sohn (Mother with Dead Son) by Käthe Kollwitz (1903)
Crâne aux yeux exorbités, Julien Duvocelle, circa 1904 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)
Serafino Macchiati, Le Visionnaire (1904)
Dance of Death,1904–05, Marcel Roux
The Creature from Mars, Alfred Kubin, 1906
Ame adorant Satan. Marcel Roux, 1907
Franz von Stuck, Inferno (1908)
The Spider (1910 - Engraving) - Marcel Roux
A Family Xmas, 1914, William Mortensen
Arthur Rackham’s 1917 Illustrations for the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Carl Olof Petersen (1880-1939), "Jugend Magazine" - 1920 (skeletons)
The Medium by Al Lunois. From Jugend 1920
Häxan: Witchcraft through the ages (1922)
Otto Dix, Verwundeter (Wounded Soldier), 1924
Otto Dix, The War ("Der Krieg"), 1932; Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden (Dresden War Triptych)
Bunuel’s Un chien andalous (1929) - eye cut open
the old Frankenstein movie (compare with book) - (1931)
Girl with Death Mask (She Plays Alone); Frida Kahlo, 1948
McKamey horror house in San Diego, California
loving hideous shit
cat by mothsprout which looks like picasso's
cats movie vs live action lion king
The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975
Francis Bacon, “Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Innocent X”, 1953
Somewhat related? The Princess of Mononoke’s; Lady’s support of the lepers (2003)
Pan's Labyrinth
Asger Carlsen – Hester series (2012) (look up other work as well)
Andrea Hasler – Embrace The Base, 2013
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-horror-movie-death-scenes-in-the-history-of-film
Eldritch horrors
“Nightmare fuel”, "body horror", etc
Macabre
Gaetano Zumbo, The Plague, Florence
William Hogarth’s Characters & Caricaturas
Gustave Doré - Death on the Pale Horse (1865)
Nuremberg Chronicle
Vestigial Tail on humans
Illustration of Quasimodo - Francois Flameng 1885
Illustration for "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" by Harry Clarke, 1919.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
"The Gargoyle" Burning Flesh Ad
Shape of Water
Roger Ballen, 1970s+ (Ballenesque) - Book by Thames & Hudson (2017)
Venom
Castle of Otranto (1764)
Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782)
The Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom, (1785), President de Curval
Lews’ The Monk (?) (1796)
Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian (?) (1797) (read SMT of hers!)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) (compare with film)
Percy Shelley’s “The Waning Moon” 1820; Eroticism in Death
Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (1831) (compare to other depictions; Disney Movie, Live Action movie, translations and its errors, etc.)
"The Viy", Nikolai Gogol
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Edgar Allen Poe,
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, Edgar Allen Poe
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte? (1847)
Graveyard poetry and funeral elegies of gothic literature
Romanticist poetry
Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (1857)
Beaudelaire’s Little Old Women & The Blind in Art in Paris 94 (1861)
Zola - Les repoussoirs (1866)
Potion and Spell, Charles Baudelaire, Little Prose Poems. 1869
The Man Who Laughs by Hugo (1869)
Ave, Dea; moriturus te salutat by Victor Hugo (1872)
Carmilla (1872)
Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell (1873)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde (1886)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) - ask emily for her essay on the anti-semetic rendering of the vampire?
Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw (1898)
The other side, Book by Alfred Kubin, 1908
The Phantom of the Opera; Gaston Leroux (book) (1911)
Kafka’s A Great Wound in ‘A Country Doctor’ 1919
The ‘Thing’ by H.P. Lovecraft (1937)
In the Woods Beneath Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom (Do I examine non-European examples????) (1947)
Fredric Brown's Sentinel (1950/1?)
Sylvia Plath, Two Views of a Cadaver (1960)
Flannery O'Connor wrote, "Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one."
The Lame Shall Enter First, Flannery O'Connor, 1965
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967)
The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You, Frank Stanford, 1977
Coraline, Neil Gaiman
Neal Shusterman, Unwind
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Leonardo da Vinci, On Painting. VI, 1498
Francis Hutcheson, Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725)
Immanuel Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime (1764)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Laocoonte (1766), Poetic Ugliness and Pictorial Ugliness
Immanuel Kant; Critique of Judgement (1790)
Schiller, On Tragic Art (1792)
Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
Schiller, On the Sublime (1801)
Ann Radcliffe, “On the Supernatural in Poetry” (1826)
Victor Hugo’s concept of the grotesque; preface to Cromwell (1827)
Théophile Gautier, preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin (1834)
Hegel's Aesthetics (1835)
Aesthetic of Ugliness by Karl Rosenkranz (1853)
https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/10/spirit-photography-and-child-mortality-in-the-19th-century.html
Matthew Arnold, from Culture and Anarchy (1867-69)
Baudelaire: The Painter of Modern Life, 1869
Leo Tolstoy; What is Art? (1897)
Freud’s Uncanny (do i really need to reread it tho) (1919)
Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifesto of 1924
Herbert Ellsworth Cory, “Ugliness and Evil"
Oswald de Andrade, “The Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibal Manifesto)” (1928)
John Dewey, from Art as Experience (1934)
Clement Greenberg, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” (1939)
John Wilcox, “The Beginnings of l‘Art Pour l’Art” (1953)
Geoffrey Gorer, Pornography of Death
Hans Sedlmayr’s The Death of Light, iii, 2 1964, The Ugliness of ‘Technical Beauty’
Susan Sontag’s ‘Notes on Camp’ 1964
Guy Debord, The Society of Spectacle (1967)
Joseph Kusoth, “Art After Philosophy” (1969)
Adorno, Aesthetic Theory (1970)
Augusto Boal, from Theatre of the Oppressed? (1970s)
The Sense of Ugliness by Peter A. Carmichael (pp. 495-498) (1972)
Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life (how the gothic horror is everyday now) (1977)
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1982)
On the Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature, Geoffrey Harpham (1982)
Beauty and Its Opposites by Ruth Lorand (pp. 399-406) (1994)
Brian Massumi, “The Autonomy of Affect” (1995)
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” (1996)
Extraordinary Bodies by Connor, David J., and Connor (pp. 275-279) (1996)
Nicolas Bourriaud, from Relational Aesthetics (1998)
V.S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein, “The Science of Art: A Neurological Theory of Aesthetic Experience” (1999)
Hello, Fruit Face!: The Paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Claudia Strand, (1999)
Michael Löwy, “Redefining Romanticism” (2002)
Andre Bernard, Rotten Rejections (Reader’s reports and criticisms): They Thought the Following were Ugly (2002)
Frances S Connelly, Modern Art and the Grotesque (2003)
Jacques Rancière, from The Politics of Aesthetics (2003)
On Beauty, Umberto Eco
On Ugliness, Umberto Eco
Silvan Tomkins, “What are Affects?” (2007)
John Hyman, “Art and Neuroscience” (2010)
Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Cult (2010)
Dark Inspiration: Grotesque Illustrations, Art & Design (2010)
Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything by Stephen Bayley (pp. 1-272) (2011)
National Endowment for the Arts, “How Art Works” (2012)
Felix Krämer, “Dark Romanticism: An Approach” (2012)
Incurable Disorder: The Art of Elizabeth McGrath, Elizabeth McGrath (2013) (can I trust a self written document?)
Raymond Williams, “Structures of Feeling” (1970s, book in 2015)
Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body, Francesca Granata (2016)
Ugliness: The Non-beautiful in Art and Theory (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art) by Andrei Pop (Editor), Mechtild Widrich (Editor)
Infernal Grotesque: Classical Paintings Of Hell, Demons, Witchcraft & Death (Illuminated Masters) - Gianfranco Sodoma (2017)
Randy Feltface on creating something and being an asshole vs being a peaceful person and never contributing anything (2017?)
https://culturacolectiva.com/art/grotesque-art-origins
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/nov/17/shock-horror-grotesque-art-jonathan-payne
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/horrible-art-histories-grotesque/
https://gizmodo.com/the-untold-history-of-ugliness-1548567950
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-contemporary-women-artists-obsessed-grotesque
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/31/ugliness-is-underrated-in-defense-of-ugly-paintings/
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-history-of-ugliness-shows-that-there-is-no-such-thing
“Hell is other people.” - Sartre, 1944
sfumato technique (wtf is it?)
The Elephant Man + his autobiography (The Autobiography of Joseph Carey Merrick) (1862-90; book in 1884)
Monster Fucking
the (reddit) forums of creepy things kids have said/drawn
Ghost hunting; focus on dilapidated places, abandoned objects once loved (dolls, toys, etc)
Fairytales that relate to ugliness (ugly stepsisters, the beast, etc)
Temple of Apollo vs Dionysus (same temple can’t remember which, dionysus side’s meaning/contribution was ignored; presence of Delphi between the two “opposing forces”)
Cryptids
(are there scholarly texts on eldritch horrors bc... i want them)
Periods
Physiologus
Liber monstrorum
da Vinci, Leonardo. Two Grotesque Profiles Confronted. 1485-90
Hieronymus Bosch’s Triptychs (i.e. Triptych of The Temptations of Saint Anthony)
The Temptations of St. Anthony - Matthias Grünewald
Grotesque Woman, Quentin Metsys, London, National Gallery
Giuseppe Arcimboldo's fruit portraits
Clemente Susini, Venerina, late eighteenth century, Bologna, Institute of Human
Grotesque Head of a Man in a Tall Bonnet, late 18th to early 19th century, Attributed to Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine
Francisco Goya y Lucientes. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819-1823
Goya, Disasters of War series 1810-1820)
Julia Pastrana, touring as “the ugliest woman in the world.” (lived in 19th cent.)
Boy Staring at an Apparition. Francisco de Goya, c. 1824-1825
Picasso’s “depictions” (portraits, etc) in cubism vs more “purely” geometric compositions (early 20th cent)
Egon Schiele (early 20th cent)
Marcel Duchamp’s Ready Mades (1914-23)
Russian famine of 1921-22 (photos of cannabilism, disfigurement due to starvation, etc.)
Diane Arbus, “the photographer of the ugly” - 1956-71
The Twilight Zone (1959-64) : Horror without the “ugly”
Geliy Korzhev (throughout late 20th cent, grotesque works 70+ due to fall of Communism)
Tales from the Crypt (TV Series 1989–1996)
Andres Serrano, Budapest (The Model), 1994 - More from this artist (Interpretations of Dreams, SH_T exhibit on photos of excrement in 2008)
Hermann Nitsch – Das Orgien Mysterien Theater - 1962-1998
Zdzisław Beksiński – Night Creeper (mid 1980s; “fantastic period” + death)
Elizabeth McGrath (active throughout 21st cent)
Juan Caparas (Gloom, other work in general) - 21st century
Hunter Scheiderer (21st century); insta: @hunter.slugdaddy
Jonathan Payne – Fleshlettes (21st cent)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (book series, 1999-2006)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix series) - 2017-2019
Alessandro Boezio sculptures (2010+)
The resurgence of “curiosity specimens” now by altering original forms (crystalizing insects, skeletons being spliced together, etc.)
(The Enigma of Amigara Fault - Junji Ito, 2001, popular 2013+)
Welcome to Nightvale (2012-now) : Horror without the “ugly”
The Kirlian Frequency (2017 ori, 2019 translation)
Emil Melmoth, The Penitent (2019), Stranded Kids (2015)
Toshihiko Ikeda (21st cent+)
The Ugliest Dog in the World Contests vs Westminster Dog Show
Dadism
Neodadaism
The Deep/Dark Web (filmed executions, merc groups playing "games", etc.)
School shootings, deportation/ICE raids + news stories vs live snapchat; pictures of people’s bodies dead bc of the live pics etc being shared (Kent State Shootings bodies, etc.)
Pimple popping videos on YouTube
Berkeley Pit, Butte, Montana (deadly pollution due to strip mining since 1950-1982)
The SkinBag Collection by Olivier Goulet
alfred kubin, THOU SHALT NOT KILL, 1900-1
The Brood (Cat and kittens) : Alfred Kubin : circa 1902
Alfred Kubin, Insect from the moon , 1900 - 1901
alfred kubin, saturn
alfred kubin, [Inhabitants of Mars] (Abitanti di Marte)
alfred kubin, The Egg
Evelyn, Evelyn (2007-2010)
“Most Honourable and Facetious Society of Ugly Faces”; Liverpool, England
Paul Sandby’s Puggs Graces Etched from his Original Daubing, caricaturing Hogarth painting monstrously deformed women in order to conform to his “Line of Beauty” (called “Line of Deformity” by critics)
alfred kubin, epidemie, 1900-1
The Phantom of the Opera, musical (1986), musical movie (2004)
Surrealism/sublime of ispy books - 90s
Cindy Sherman’s photography; her “hard copy photos”, current instagram, etc.
Ivan le Lorraine Albright’s The Portrait of Dorian Gray 1943-44 painting
carrion -baudelaire (1857, extended ver in 1868)
Pulp Fiction based on Gothic fiction
Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1756-59)
https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-origins-of-the-gothic
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4916796/Victorian-women-cashed-unusual-appearances.html
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/healing-spas-and-ugly-clubs-how-victorians-taught-us-to-treat-people-with-disabilities/
https://www.wired.com/2014/05/awesomely-gross-medical-illustrations-from-the-19th-century/
https://timeline.com/in-the-1800s-there-were-literally-laws-against-being-ugly-and-no-surprise-who-suffered-most-c0b7a26ba8c9
https://www.medicaldaily.com/science-behind-why-videos-popping-pimples-cysts-and-blackheads-are-so-popular-right-333454
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/siibs/sresearch/gothic-bible-project
Civil War’s creation of ghosts to cope (1861-65)
MEDIEVAL
MANNERISM
RENAISSANCE
BAROQUE
ROCOCO
NEOCLASSICAL
ROMANTICISM
ACADEMIC
REALISM
PRE-RAPHAELITE
IMPRESSIONISM
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
SYMBOLISM
ART NOUVEAU
FAUVISM
EXPRESSIONISM
CUBISM
FUTURISM
DADA
SURREALISM
ART DECO
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
POP ART
MINIMALISM
CONCEPTUAL/INSTALLATION ART
PHOTOREALISM
CONTEMPORARY
FEUDALISM
HUNDRED YEARS WAR
EUROPEAN AGE OF DISCOVERY; COLONISATION
SPANISH INQUISTION
MERCANTILISM
PROTESTANT REFORMATION
LITTLE ICE AGE OF EUROPE (FAMINE)
AGE OF ENLIGHTMENT
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1ST FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS; REIGN OF TERROR (1793-1794), NAPOLEON BONAPARTE TAKES POWER (1796-1802)
NAPOLEONIC WARS (FR VS EURO) ; BORDERS OF EUROPE MINORLY CHANGED, BRITAIN EMERGES WORLD POWER, COLLAPSE OF SPANISH EMPIRE, INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS IN L. AMERICA BEGINS,
SPANISH AMERICAN WARS OF INDEPENDENCE
MANIFEST DESTINY IN US
PAX BRITANNICA (PERIOD OF RELATIVE PEACE)
ABOLITIONISM SPREADS (EUROPE: LATE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENT, US EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 1863)
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
RECONSTRUCTION AND EVENTUAL SEGREGATION IN AMERICA POST-CIVIL WAR
GERMAN EMPIRE
SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA
WORLD WAR 1
GREAT DEPRESSION + DUST BOWL
ROARING TWENTIES
SPANISH CIVIL WAR
SECOND WORLD WAR; HOLOCAUST, PACIFIC & ATLANTIC THEATERS
BEATNIK MOVEMENT
REMAINING COLONIES BEGIN TO GAIN INDEPENDENCE
COLD WAR; SPACE RACE, THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR
GERMANY SPLITS INTO EAST AND WEST
KOREA WAR (50-53), VIETNAM WAR (55-75)
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
AIDS EPIDEMIC (PEAK IN 1995, STILL ISSUE BUT NOT A SURGE AS BEFORE)
INFORMATION/TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION
9/11 FOLLOWED BY WAR ON TERROR
GLOBALISATION
GREAT RECESSION (LATE 2007; 2008 SAW GLOBAL STOCK MARKETS PLUNGE, EFFECTS STILL FELT TODAY BY MILLENIALS)
FERGUSON SHOOTING SPARKS BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
REVOLUTIONS OF 1848
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
FALL OF BERLIN WALL; GERMAN REUNIFICATION
REVOLUTIONS OF 1989 (BY STATELITE COUNTRIES)
HURRICANE KATRINA
OCCUPY MOVEMENT PROTESTS
CLIMATE CRISIS PROTESTS AFTER DECADE OF RISING TEMPS AND SEA LEVEL, INCREASING CARBON AND POLLUTION LEVELS, COMES TO CRUX
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