The Dark Knight ReturnsNeomedieval Art after Britain

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Geopolitical Neomedievalism

The New Medievalism

“A system of overlapping authority and multiple loyalty.” (Bull: 245) 1977

Commission by ‘English’ artist Hans Holbein

Commission by ‘German’ artist Liam Gillick

Neomedieval Cultural Ecologies

Neomedieval Aesthetics

Neomedievalism

Umberto Eco, "Dreaming the Middle Ages," in Travels in Hyperreality (1973).

"..we are at present witnessing, both in Europe and America, a period of renewed interest in the Middle Ages, with a curious oscillation between fantastic neomedievalism and responsible philological examination..."

Luke Collins

Cee Face (2005)

Marcus Coates Spartacus Chetwynd

Olivia Plender

The Folly of Man Exposed or the World Upside Down, 2006, Details

35 Warrender Park Road

Disclosures II: The Middle Ages, Laxton September 2008 - part of Histories of the Present produced by Nottingham Contemporary.

Featured Oliva Plender’sBring Back Robin Hood

Michelle Cotton (Curator)

The Long Dark (2009)

Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

Torsten LauschmanThe Darker AgesMary Mary, Glasgow, until Sat 21 Nov 2009

Martin Clark, Artistic Director, Tate St Ives; Michael Bracewell, writer and critic and Alun Rowlands, artist, writer and Head of Fine Art, University of Reading (Curators)

The Dark MonarchMagic and Modernity in British Art

Tate St Ives 10 October 2009 – 10 January 2010

Alex Pollard

Robin Hood Vortex (2008)

Oil on Canvas

Alex Pollard and Claire Stephenson – Four Fatrasies, Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London 20 January - 14 March 2010

Plastique Fantastique

Ribbon Dance Ritual to call forth the Pre-Industrial Modern part of The Event in Birmingham in April 2007

Spartacus Chetwynd Mime Troupe (left)

Spartacus Chetwynd Mime Troupe Feminism, Little Tales of Misogyny.

Sequences, Reykjavik, November 2009

Eric Raymond (1999)

‘Cathedral’ model neomedievalism

‘Bazaar’ model neomedievalism

Vince Koloski A Maze Book (2000) Neon, Carved acrylic sheet, Wood, Circuit board, and toy mazes

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