Goth: Designing Darkness collecting as the discourse broadened and

as the discourse broadened and her reputation as one of the most important painters of her generation solidified

is a reckoning and a force

between depths of history

Amalie Smith’s bracing hybrid of a novel bares the aching interwovenness of art and life

Goth: Designing Darkness collecting as the discourse broadened andThe Enlightenment heralded reason and progress, yet also spawned a world organised along increasingly rigid lines of technological development and economic gain. In the late 18th century, this disenchantment with the world triggered a reaction, a counter movement and antidote to notions of progress, clarity, and globalisation. The goth subculture as we know it today was born in the 1980s, but its roots are much older. It is a lifestyle steeped in an