The message : Kunst und Okkultismus = Art and occultism ; [anlässlich der Ausstellung "The Message. Das Medium als Künstler. The Medium as Artist", Cologne Fine Art, 2007, Kunstmuseum Bochum, 16.02. - 13.04.2008] /
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| Imprint: | Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2007. |
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| Description: | 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | German English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6656108 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9783865603425 3865603424 |
