Thomas Negovan (born November 8, 1971) is a writer, musician, and

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

from

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. He regularly lectures on

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

and Weimar-era Berlin

cabaret Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or d ...

Biography

In 1995, Negovan formed a rock band, Three Years Ghost, which released one album, ''Sidhe'' (1995), and performed infrequently in the Chicago area until 2003. He has also collaborated with members of the

Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891. The ensemble makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival. The music director is Riccardo Muti, who began his tenure ...

and

R. Kelly Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and sex offender convicted of racketeering and multiple sex offenses. During his recording career, Kelly sold over 75 million records worldwid ...

, and has recorded and performed under the ensemble name Ver Sacrum. In 1999, Negovan founded Century Guild, an art gallery and seller exclusively representing artists Gail Potocki and Jeremy Bastian. In 2006, Negovan released ''The Union of Hope and Sadness: The Art of Gail Potocki'', with an introduction by Jim Rose of The

Jim Rose Circus The Jim Rose Circus is a modern-day version of a circus sideshow. It was founded in Seattle in 1991 by Jim Rose and his wife BeBe Aschard Rose. The sideshow came to prominence to an American audience as a second stage show at the 1992 Lollapaloo ...

. The book was an analysis of the

Symbolist Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...

paintings of Gail Potocki, and also included essays from

Richard Metzger Richard Metzger (born July 28, 1965) is a television host and author. He was the host of the TV show ''Disinformation'' (United Kingdom Channel 4, 2000–01), The Disinformation Company and its website, Disinfo.com. He is currently the host of the ...

and Marina Korsakova-Kreyn, and portraits of Jim and Bébé Rose, Joe Coleman,

Grant Morrison Grant Morrison, MBE (born 31 January 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer, screenwriter, and producer. Their work is known for its nonlinear narrative A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, w ...

, and Claudio Carniero of

Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (, ; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Ju ...

. In 2010, he released the catalog ''Grand Guignol: An Exhibition of Artworks Celebrating the Legendary Theater of Terror'', which featured rare historical images (1895–1962) from the

Théâtre du Grand-Guignol ''Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol'' (: "The Theatre of the Great Puppet")—known as the Grand Guignol–was a theatre in the Pigalle district of Paris (7, cité Chaptal). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in natur ...

, the Parisian theater which gained notoriety for lurid exhibitions of violence, death, and debauchery. The book also featured works by

Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's prim ...

and

Alphonse Mucha Alfons Maria Mucha (; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorat ...

, as well as works by contemporary artists

Chris Mars Chris Mars (born April 26, 1961) is an American painter and musician. He was the percussionist, drummer for the seminal Minneapolis based alternative-rock band The Replacements (band), The Replacements from 1979 to 1990, and later joined the inf ...

Dave McKean David McKean (born 29 December 1963) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpt ...

, Gail Potocki,

Michael Zulli Michael Zulli is an American artist known for his work as an animal and wildlife illustrator and as a comic book illustrator. Career Michael Zulli's career in the comics industry began in October 1986 with ''The Puma Blues'', on which he collabor ...

, and

Malleus The malleus, or hammer, is a hammer-shaped small bone or ossicle of the middle ear. It connects with the incus, and is attached to the inner surface of the eardrum. The word is Latin for 'hammer' or 'mallet'. It transmits the sound vibrations fro ...

, some of them being published for the first time. Negovan has also edited a number of publications, including: ''Chamber of Mystery: Witchcraft'' (2007), which featured various artists and authors, and an introduction by

Dan Brereton Daniel Alan Brereton (born November 22 San Francisco Bay Area) is an American writer and illustrator who has produced notable work in the comic book field. Biography Early life Dan Brereton attended the California College of the Arts and the Academ ...

featuring characters from the

Nocturnals ''Nocturnals'' is a comic book title created by artist Dan Brereton which debuted as a six-part Limited series (comics), limited series in 1994 in comics, 1994–1995 in comics, 1995 under Malibu Comics collectively subtitled as ''Black Planet''. ...

, and reprints thirteen stories from 1950s horror comics, selected by Negovan; and ''

Volume One: Black Planet and Other Stories'' (2007), reprints of the earliest of the

comic stories, written and painted by

with an introduction by Negovan.

References

*Three Years Ghost (1995). Sidhe D liner notes Fordham Press. *"Three Years Ghost: Strength of strings". A String of Pearls. Summer 1995 issue. *Lowry, Mark "I Wanna Be Kate" Dallas/Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Monday, September 14, 1998. *Everson, John "For Kate Bush Fans" The Star Newspapers, December 24, 1998. *Press release, "The Ballrooms of Mars", www.cdbaby.com/versacrum. *Negovan, Thomas. The Union of Hope and Sadness: The Art of Gail Potocki (biographical notes), Olympian Publishing, 2006. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Negovan, Thomas 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers 1971 births Living people Musicians from Chicago Historians from Illinois American male non-fiction writers