Global Gothic

Barbara Borngasser is an art historian, working on late medieval, modern, and contemporary architecture. She is a founding member of the German Carl Justi Association for Cooperation in Art History with Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Bruno Klein holds the Chair for Christian Art of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages at the Technische Universitat Dresden and is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences. He has authored numerous publications on the historical and social development of art discourses.

• 1 Gothic Going Global About this Book Barbara Borngässer and Bruno Klein2 A New Old Architecture Global Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Bruno Klein3 Gothic in Europe after the “End” of Neo-Gothic Bruno Klein4 Tradition in the Age of Progress Notions on Gothic Church Architecture in the United States Bettina Marten5 Ecclesiastical Gothic in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Canada Bettina Marten6 Gothic Down Under Barbara Borngässer and Bruno Klein7 Neo-Gothic in India Autonomy, Fusion, Exuberance Peter Scriver, Amit Srivastava, and Pedro Guedes8 The Persistence of Neo-Gothic Architecture in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century South America Martín M. Checa-Artasu9 Neo-Gothic Architecture in Mexico from the Porfiriato to the Present Martín M. Checa-Artasu10 Gótico à brasileira Gothicizing Church Building between Amazonia and Rio Grande do Sul Barbara Borngässer11 Gothic Architecture in Africa from Colonial to Postcolonial An Attempt Bruno Klein12 Western, Modern and Postmodern Gothic Churches in Twentieth-Century China: Styles, Identities, and Memories Thomas Coomans13 Gothic Revival in Japan in the Early Period of the Occidentalizing Experiences between Religious and Civil Architecture Olimpia Niglio14 Gothic and Event Culture Wedding Chapels Barbara Borngässer