HELL BOUND - NEW GOTHIC ART

Francesca Gavin

[Art - Graphics - Mixed media]

The first book to focus on new gothic art Hell Bound highlights a new generation of contemporary artists who are increasingly obsessed with the darker things in life. Illustrators street artists sculptors photographers filmmakers installation artists and painters are all reflecting this renewed interest in gothic imagery. Horror has become a more accepted part of everyday life - and art as always is a reflection of life. Here death metal the war on terror and throwaway pop culture meet feeding the popular fascination for all things gothic.Among the art featured is the iconoclastic work of Ken Kagami Terence Koh Ricky Swallow the photographic collages of Marnie Weber the drawings of Chloe Piene and Wes Lang the paintings of Matt Greene and Iris Van Dongen the outsider punk art of Pure Evil and the illustrations of French.

Laurence King Publishing 176 p. 21 x 25 cm - Hardcover