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Loading... The Message: Art and Occultismby Claudia Dichter
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Occult practices, s ances and magic have traditionally been met with suspicion in the world of high culture, but they are currently getting a fresh look. Turns out, they have long had a quiet influence on art--at least since the mid-1800s. The Message demonstrates this fascinating history with paranormal-influenced paintings, drawings and thought photographs, a term for the phenomenon of imprinting an image from one's mind directly onto a photographic medium--something we've all at least wished we could do... By the early eighteenth century, the occult had found a home in the arts with the advent of Surrealism--in 1933, Andr Breton discussed these inexplicable phenomena in his text, The Automatic Message. This publication borrows its name from Breton's text; and features early-twentieth-century photographs of s ances from the archive of parapsychologist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, which vividly illustrate Breton's ideas. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)708The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts Galleries, museums, private collections of fine and decorative artsLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |