The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour
Documentary of architecture on ghothic buildings, the makeup and the evolution to the perpendicular (British) gothic architecture that we see much of in Britain today.
- 2014-2014
- 1 season
- Documentary
Documentary of architecture on ghothic buildings, the makeup and the evolution to the perpendicular (British) gothic architecture that we see much of in Britain today.
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2014
Episode 1
Liberty Diversity Depravity
49 mins
Horace Walpole claimed the idea for The Castle of Otranto came to him in a dream. He found himself in a great stairwell where he saw a monstrous, disembodied hand in armour. Gothic was a form cloaked in mystery.from the very beginning.
Episode 2
The City and the Soul
50 mins
As the modern world began to take shape, it would be the dark side of gothic, which fed on anxiety and alienation, that really came into its own
Episode 3
Blood for Sale: Gothic Goes Global
Gothic began with a desire to revive something which was dead - a style of medieval architecture - but it grew like graveyard ivy, more sinister at every twist and turn. By the mid-nineteenth century, gothic had spread in all directions.