Gothic creativity: the counter-power of darkness

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Maria Antónia
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/comunicacaoecultura.2013.5118

The power of artists has always had its expressive space limited by other pow­ers against which it has reacted by transgressive processes. In the case of Gothic Creativity, one can say that it has always stimulated imaginative expansions presenting itself as a counter-power comparatively associated with certain disruptions of modernity and avant-garde. In Love, Mystery and Misery, Coral Ann Howells stresses the anti-rational impetus for the anti-rational Gothic, characterizing it as a hybrid genre with transgressive energies. Its power to react against evil power, through representations of the power of evil and dark­ness has the intention to reveal what remains repressed, unspoken or invisible, tearing off the masks of instituted appearances. In The Gothic – Documents of Contemporary Art, Gilda Williams notes that “Gothic remains non-, anti- and counter by definition, always asserting that the conventional values of life and enlightenment are actually less instructive than darkness and death”.