CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! By the 1660s, Rosa had achieved fame, respect, and plentiful commissions. However, he had not received them on his own terms. Feeling that he would be forever associated with small landscapes and denied the prestige that was his due, he resumed travel …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! If Rosa’s years in Florance were to be some of the happiest and most productive in his life, his ambition was not content to make a permanent home there. In 1649, he relocated Lucretia and the rest of his family to Rome, …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! Although Rosa was not quite obscure when he arrived in Florence, he was hardly famous either. He settled there at the invitation of Carlo de’Medici. In the mid-17th century, the Medici Court was still a formidable political dynasty. In the spirit of …
As the wheels start slowly turning – as word gets out here and there about the Gothic Funk Press’ FLOOR Kickstarter – I am genuinely excited about any positive mention that we have received. I am particularly gratified by the blurbs people have written online and the spread of support we’ve received so far. Two …
The Gothic Funk Press has organized a Kickstarter fundraiser to support our first community engagement project of 2015. The project is to be called FLOOR or the Flint Order of Orpheus, and with just $100 we will be able to develop it. For more information, please visit our Kickstarter Project Page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/connorcoyne/floor-the-flint-order-of-orpheus Please consider donating …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! Salvator Rosa was born in 1615 in the Arenella quarter of Naples. This was long prior to the establishment of Italy as a nation, yet after the Renaissance age of autonomous city-states, and fell during a period of external domination by other …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! I should take a moment to (procrastinate and) introduce you to your surroundings. Obviously, this is an online project and we are in many separate spaces. But this course is also an illegitimate, unaccredited, and (possibly) unread enterprise, and so I have …
Attention attentive parties! Gothic Funk Press, the only independent and experimental literary press operating out of the East Village of Flint, Michigan has officially commenced the operation henceforth to be known as “Phase 2.0.” We are happy to provide this Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Gothic Funk Press, Phase 2.0 for your convenience. Behold: FREQUENTLY …
CLASS: BONE DEEP GOTHIC Curious what this is all about? Find out here! In one sense, our exploration of the gothic will begin with an early subject: the career of painter Salvator Rosa, who was active during the middle part of the 1600s in the cities of Naples, Florence, and Rome. Rosa was a …
Understanding the Gothic, 410 – 2016 Part I: Bone Deep Gothic Gothic Funk Press is happy to offer an informal course that will explore the rise of the Gothic outlook and aesthetic from its complex distant roots, guided by Gothic: 400 Years of Horror, Excess, Evil and Ruin, Richard Davenport-Hines’ impassioned and eccentric exploration of …