1. The Dark Knight Returns
Neomedievalism in Recent Art
www.neilmulholland.co.uk

2. Cultural Neomedievalism

3. Neo‐medievalism
Umberto Eco, "Dreaming the Middle Ages," in Travels in Hyperreality, transl. by W.
Weaver, NY: Harcourt Brace, 1986, 61‐72. Umberto Eco said "..we are at present
witnessing, both in Europe and America, a period of renewed interest in the Middle
Ages, with a curious oscillaLon between fantasLc neomedievalism and responsible
philological examinaLon..."
Luke Collins
Cee Face (2005)

4. Olivia Plender
The Folly of Man Exposed or the World Upside Down,
2006, Details
35 Warrender Park Road

6. Plas5que Fantas5que
Ribbon Dance Ritual to call forth the Pre‐Industrial Modern
part of The Event in Birmingham in April 2007

7. Geopolitical Neomedievalism

8. Neo‐medievalism
“A system of overlapping authority and mulLple
loyalty.” (Bull: 245) 1977

20. Disclosures II: The Middle Ages, Laxton September 2008

21. ARIs that share the New 57 ConsLtuLon:
Transmission (Glasgow), CollecLve (Edinburgh)

22. ARIs that share the New 57 ConsLtuLon:
Catalyst (Belfast), Generator (Dundee), Embassy (Edinburgh)

24. George Henry Longly Mass Damper (2009)

27. Cultural Ecologies

31. 1999
1973
2009
Chris Anderson
Free: Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

33. The Long Tail in a Neomedieval Art Economy

35. Hauser and Wirth: London and Zurich

39. Neomedieval Aesthetics

41. Neomedieval AestheLcs

42. Neo‐Gothic Revival as symptom?

43. Michelle CoAon (Curator)
The Long Dark (2009)
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

44. MarLn Clark, ArLsLc Director, Tate St Ives; Michael Bracewell, writer and criLc and
Alun Rowlands, arLst, writer and Head of Fine Art, University of Reading (Curators)
The Dark Monarch
Magic and Modernity in Bri9sh Art
Tate St Ives 10 October 2009 – 10 January 2010

45. Ambient as cause?

46. Ambient as cure?

47. Alex Pollard
Robin Hood Vortex (2008)
Oil on Canvas

48. Torsten Lauschman
The Darker Ages
Mary Mary, Glasgow, unLl Sat 21 Nov 2009

49. T.S. Ananthu, A Ghandian Approach to
Technological Wonders for the Twenty‐
First Century, New Delhi: A P H Pub.,
2003.

50. Slides available at www.neilmulholland.co.uk
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.