The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour — Season 1, Episode 1: Liberty Diversity Depravity
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 3 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
In the middle of the 18th century - in England - an entirely surprising thing happened. Out of the Age of Enlightenment and Reason a monster was born - a Gothic obsession with monsters, ghouls, ghosts and things that go bump in the night. From restrained aristocratic beginnings to pornographic excesses, the Gothic revival came to influence popular art, architecture and literature.
About The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.