The Art of Darkness av S. Elizabeth

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<P><B><I>The Art of Darkness</I> is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks that have been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic, and macabre.</B><BR/><BR/> Throughout history, artists have been <B>obsessed with darkness</B>– creating works that <B>haunt</B> and <B>horrify</B>, <B>mesmerise</B> and <B>delight,</B> and play on our <B>innermost fears</B>. <B>Gentileschi</B> took revenge with paint in <I>Judith Slaying Holofernes</I> while <B>Bosch</B> depicted fearful visions of Hell that still beguile. Victorian Britain became strangely obsessed with <B>the dead</B> and in Norway <B>Munch </B>explored anxiety and fear in one of the most famous paintings in the world (<I>The Scream</I>, 1893). Today, the Chapman Brothers, Damien Hirst and Louise Bourgeois, as well as many lesser known artists working in the margins, are still drawn to <B>all that is macabre</B>.<BR/><BR/> From <B>Dreams & Nightmares</B> to <B>Matters of Mortality</B>, <B>Depra