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| Dark Angels / Bright Devils. Feathers
tattooed on a girls' shoulder: a memory of angels' wings. Gothic lives,
not as broken treasures accumulated within museum vaults, but as a
universal youth culture where a dark language speaks love, rebellion
and romantic desire cloaked in black. The crucifix has acquired other
rituals, a semantic field in which it speaks to its inverted other; the
monks who calligraphed and decorated coloured manuscripts scripts were
tormented by the devil with sexual visions; his work and theirs lives
again today on the skin. |
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