From Gothic to Goth: Embracing the Dark Side
The Goodman Gallery at the Allentown Art Museum of Lehigh Valley
in Allentown, PA
Jan 29, 2012 - Apr 29, 2012
An exhibition at the Goodman Gallery of the Allentown Art Museum featuring the Kambriel Moiré Midnight Bustle Ensemble amongst other examples of current and antique clothing, jewelry, needlework, and artwork.
Gothic to Goth offers an overview of the nineteenth-century cult of mourning in American art and fashion and indicates how that trend translated into contemporary Goth fashion, a genre now embraced by mainstream couture as well as by the rock subculture of the twentieth century. Included in the exhibition are representative examples of mourning art such as needle pictures, paintings, and post-mortem daguerreotype portraits; mourning jewelry and other accessories; two late Victorian mourning outfits; and examples of contemporary Goth fashion inspired by the mourning excesses of the earlier century.