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The Art of Ectoplasm

Author : Serena Keshavjee
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 1772840394
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Ectoplasm written by Serena Keshavjee and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacy of the Hamiltons’ psychic archive In the wake of the First World War and the 1918–19 pandemic, the world was left grappling with a profound sense of loss. It was against this backdrop that a Winnipeg couple, physician T.G. Hamilton and nurse Lillian Hamilton, began their research, documenting and photographing séances they held in their home laboratory. Their extensive study of the survival of human consciousness after death resulted in a stunning collection of hundreds of photographs, including images of tables flying through the air, mediums in trances, and, most curious of all, ectoplasm—a strange, white substance through which ghosts could apparently manifest. The Art of Ectoplasm invites readers to explore the Hamiltons’ research and photographic evidence which has attracted international attention from scholars and artists alike. Notable figures like Arthur Conan Doyle participated in the Hamilton family’s séances, and their investigations garnered support among the psychical scientific community, including renowned physicist Oliver Lodge, the inventor of wireless telegraphy. In the century since their creation, the Hamilton photographs (now housed at the University of Manitoba) have continued to perplex and inspire as the subject of academic study, comedic parody, and artistic and cinematic renderings. This fascinating collection reflects on the history and legacy of the startling and uncanny images found in the Hamilton Family archive. As contemporary society continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Art of Ectoplasm offers a compelling look at a chapter in social history not entirely unlike our own.

Shannon Taggart: Séance

Author :
Publisher : Fulgur Press
ISBN 13 : 9781527236318
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Shannon Taggart: Séance written by and published by Fulgur Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American photographer Shannon Taggart (born 1977) became aware of spiritualism as a teenager when her cousin received a message from a medium that revealed details about her grandfather's death. In 2001, while working as a photojournalist, she began photographing where that message was received--Lily Dale, New York, home to the world's largest spiritualist community, proceeding to other communities in, for example, Arthur Findlay College in the UK. Taggart expected to spend one summer figuring out the tricks of the spiritualist trade. Instead, spiritualism's mysterious processes, earnest practitioners and neglected photographic history became an inspiration. Her project evolved into an 18-year journey that has taken her around the world in search of "ectoplasm"-- the elusive substance that is said to be both spiritual and material. With Séance, Taggart offers a series of haunting photographs exploring spiritualist practices in the US, England and Europe. Supported with a commentary on her experiences, a foreword by Dan Aykroyd, creator of Ghostbusters and fourth-generation spiritualist, and illustrated essays from Andreas Fischer and Tony Oursler, Séance examines spiritualism's relationship with human celebrity and its connections with technology, and concludes with the debate over ectoplasm and how spiritualism can move forward in the 21st century.

Phenomena of Materialisation

Author : Albert Schrenck-Notzing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Phenomena of Materialisation written by Albert Schrenck-Notzing and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Perfect Medium

Author : Clément Chéroux
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300111363
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Medium written by Clément Chéroux and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substantiating the existence of supernatural beings and happenings. This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras. Drawn from the archives of European and American occult societies and private and public collections, the photographs in many cases have never before been published. The Perfect Medium studies these rare and remarkable photographs through cultural, historical, and artistic lenses. More than mere curiosities, the images on film are important records of the cultural forces and technical methods that brought about their production. They document in unexpected ways a period when developing photographic technology merged with a popular obsession with the occult to create a new genre of haunting experimental photographs.

Takashi Homma: Tokyo and My Daughter

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Publisher : Nieves
ISBN 13 : 9783907179185
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Takashi Homma: Tokyo and My Daughter written by and published by Nieves. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short and sweet--and astonishingly beautiful--book of photographs by the Tokyo-born and based Takashi Homma features 32 color images, primarily of the artist's daughter, although there are also some cityscapes and interiors that round out the story with perfect pitch. Homma offers an extremely well calibrated selection of images of his daughter from her first months to about age six: we see her sitting in her high chair; at a picnic; peeking through the car window; and taking some pictures of her own. Luminous, loving and relaxed, these portraits welcome the reader into the artist's inner world without giving anything away. "Tokyo and My Daughter," featuring one of the best family dog pictures ever, is published in the same series as Nieves' "Kim Gordon: Chronicles Vol.1, Mike Mills: Humans," and "Yukari Miyagi: Rabbit & Turtle." Homma has published his work in many international magazines and exhibited worldwide.

The Art And Science Of Clairvoyance

Author : Helen DaVita
Publisher : Helen DaVita
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book The Art And Science Of Clairvoyance written by Helen DaVita and published by Helen DaVita. This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration into the spiritual power of the visual mind, focusing specifically on clairvoyance. Rather than providing instructions on how to do something, it seeks to answer what it is all about. Topics such as understanding the clairvoyant power, unlocking imagination, the neuroscience of mental images, prophesy, precognition, and discovering new ways to unlock clairvoyant creativity are discussed. Through this book, readers gain an understanding of how and why they can tap into their inner clairvoyance and trust their own abilities. Suggestions of techniques for enhancing visualisation skills and deeper spiritual connection are explored, allowing readers the opportunity to unlock the potential of their visual power. Whether a novice or an experienced clairvoyant, this book will provide insights into the clairvoyant world and offer an opportunity to grow in knowledge of this powerful and fascinating field. By cultivating respect and appreciation for clairvoyance, its great power can be harnessed to make a difference. You have the capacity to increase your clairvoyant power and uncover new ways of seeing the world. By the end of this book, you will have gained valuable insight into the subject of clairvoyance and experienced at least one ‘aha’ moment.

Seventy-two and One Half Miles Across Los Angeles

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912339785
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Seventy-two and One Half Miles Across Los Angeles written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miles one to twelve -- Miles thirteen to twenty-four -- Miles twenty-five to thirty-six -- Miles thirty-seven to fourty-eight -- Miles fourty-nine to sixty -- Miles sixty-one to seventy-two and one half -- A walk across Los Angeles / Nigel Raab -- Afterword.

The Spectacle of Illusion

Author : Matthew Tompkins
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN 13 : 9781942884378
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book The Spectacle of Illusion written by Matthew Tompkins and published by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP). This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Spectacle of Illusion', professional magician-turned experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins investigates the arts of deception as practised and popularised by mesmerists, magicians and psychics since the early 18th century. Organised thematically within a broadly chronological trajectory, this compelling book explores how illusions perpetuated by magicians and fraudulent mystics can not only deceive our senses but also teach us about the inner workings of our minds. Indeed, modern scientists are increasingly turning to magic tricks to develop new techniques to examine human perception, memory and belief.0Beginning by discussing mesmerism and spiritualism, the book moves on to consider how professional magicians such as John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Houdini engaged with these movements ? particularly how they set out to challenge and debunk paranormal claims. It also relates the interactions between magicians, mystics and scientists over the past 200 years, and reveals how the researchers who attempted to investigate magical and paranormal phenomena were themselves deceived, and what this can teach us about deception. 00Exhibition: Wellcome Collection, London, UK (11.04.-15.09.2019).

Imagining Winnipeg

Author : Esyllt W. Jones
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887557354
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Winnipeg written by Esyllt W. Jones and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873–1957) rose to become the city's pre-eminent commercial photographer. Documenting everything from royal visits to deep poverty, from the building of the landmark Fort Garry Hotel to the riots of the 1919 General Strike, Foote's photographs have come to be iconic representations of early Winnipeg life. In Imagining Winnipeg, historian Esyllt W. Jones takes us beyond the iconic to reveal the complex artist behind the lens and the conflicting ways in which his photographs have been used to give credence to diverse and sometimes irreconcilable views of Winnipeg's past. Incorporating 160 stunning photographs from the more than 2,000 images in the Archives of Manitoba Foote Collection, Imagining Winnipeg challenges our understanding of visual history and the city we thought we knew.

The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome

Author : Serge Brussolo
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612194680
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome written by Serge Brussolo and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome, lucid dreamers called mediums dive into their dreams to retrieve ectoplasms - sticky blobs with curiously soothing properties that are the only form of art in the world. David Sarella is a medium whose dream identity is a professional thief. Only the dives require an extraordinary amount of physical effort, and as David ages, they become more difficult. David decides to go down one final time, in the deepest, most extravagant dive ever attempted...

The Coming of the Fairies

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Coming of the Fairies written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Where the Wolf

Author : Sally Rosen Kindred
Publisher : Diode Editions
ISBN 13 : 193972841X
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Where the Wolf written by Sally Rosen Kindred and published by Diode Editions. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Rosen Kindred’s third book, Where the Wolf, is a wood where a girl-turned-woman, a daughter-turned-mother, goes walking, searching for the warm fur, the hackles and hurts—past and future—inside her. These poems explore how stories—fairy tales, family memories, myths, and dreams—tell us, and let us tell each other, who we are, and what’s wild and sacred in our connections. From “the beast your mother made/ who scans hood and bed,” to the ghost-guard summoned by a child on the night her family fractures, to the teenage son who transforms into “beauty, his dread-body,” the beings in these poems are themselves stories, spells: alchemized through language, always becoming, bearing hope and loss. They fragment in anxiety, and form into new wilderness. They open themselves to reconstruction, redemption. Through it all, “Wolf is the ghost of a hurt remembering itself. Is She. You can hear Her between trees.” These poems are a calling out—through meadows, emptied houses, dark skies—to wolf and self, parent and child, girl and woman, love and grief.

Phantasmagoria

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199299943
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Phantasmagoria written by Marina Warner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception, and uncovers a host of spirit forms--angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies--that are still actively present in contemporary culture.

Mark Leckey

Author : Mitch Speed
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1846382092
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Mark Leckey written by Mitch Speed and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated examination of Mark Leckey's celebrated video montage. In 1999, the British artist Mark Leckey released his video-montage Fiorucci made me Hardcore, a dreamscape vignette that communes with the rapturous promises of youth. Putting archive material to use, Leckey entwined footage of underground dance and street culture in Britain with audio grifted and recorded in the artist's studio. In this illustrated study, the first comprehensive examination of the work, Mitch Speed argues that by interweaving personal and collective memory, this work gives voice to the complexities of class and cultural transformation during Britain's Thatcherite era. Oscillating between local and expansive resonances, Fiorucci made me Hardcore takes form as a homage, love letter, and work of criticism that eschews analysis, instead incanting the deeper implications of its subject.

The machine and the ghost

Author : Sas Mays
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526112108
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The machine and the ghost written by Sas Mays and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on our complex relationship with technology, The machine and the ghost explores our culture’s continued fascination with the spectral, the ghostly and the paranormal. Through a series of critical case studies and artists’ discussions, this lively new collection examines topics ranging from contemporary art to cultural theory. Produced with renowned specialists within the field, including the artist Susan Hiller and the writer Marina Warner, the book combines the historical with the contemporary in exploring how the visual culture of paranormal phenomena continues to haunt our imaginations. Informed by history and the visual tradition of spiritualism and psychical research, the collection is very much concerned to site that tradition within our contemporary concerns, such as landscape and environment, and recent technological developments. Aimed at a broad academic and cultural audience, the collection will appeal to all academic levels in addition to those interested in art and culture more widely.

William Klein - Contacts

Author : William Klein
Publisher : Contrasto
ISBN 13 : 9788869651564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book William Klein - Contacts written by William Klein and published by Contrasto. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unique occasion for William Klein's collectors.

Art and Abstract Objects

Author : Christy Mag Uidhir
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191655724
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Art and Abstract Objects written by Christy Mag Uidhir and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Abstract Objects presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and the core areas of philosophy. The standard way of thinking about non-repeatable (single-instance) artworks such as paintings, drawings, and non-cast sculpture is that they are concrete (i.e., material, causally efficacious, located in space and time). Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is currently located in Paris. Richard Serra's Tilted Arc is 73 tonnes of solid steel. Johannes Vermeer's The Concert was stolen in 1990 and remains missing. Michaelangelo's David was attacked with a hammer in 1991. By contrast, the standard way of thinking about repeatable (multiple-instance) artworks such as novels, poems, plays, operas, films, symphonies is that they must be abstract (i.e., immaterial, causally inert, outside space-time): consider the current location of Melville's Moby Dick, the weight of Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium", or how one might go about stealing Puccini's La Bohème or vandalizing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9. Although novels, poems, and symphonies may appear radically unlike stock abstract objects such as numbers, sets, and propositions, most philosophers of art think that for the basic intuitions, practices, and conventions surrounding such works to be preserved, repeatable artworks must be abstracta. This volume examines how philosophical enquiry into art might itself productively inform or be productively informed by enquiry into abstracta taking place within not just metaphysics but also the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind and language. While the contributors chiefly focus on the relationship between philosophy of art and contemporary metaphysics with respect to the overlap issue of abstracta, they provide a methodological blueprint from which scholars working both within and beyond philosophy of art can begin building responsible, mutually informative, and productive relationships between their respective fields.