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Visions of enchantment : occultism, magic and visual culture : select papers form the University of Cambridge Conference / edited by Daniel Zamani, Judith Noble and Merlin Cox.

Title
Visions of enchantment : occultism, magic and visual culture : select papers form the University of Cambridge Conference / edited by Daniel Zamani, Judith Noble and Merlin Cox.
Author
Visions of enchantment (Conference) (2014 : University of Cambridge), creator.
Publication
[Lopen, England] : Fulgur Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors
  • Cox, Merlin,
  • Noble, Judith,
  • Zamani, Daniel,
Description
xix, 185 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 33 cm
Summary
Since Antiquity, the idea of the artist as a magician, trickster and powerful creator of new realities has established itself as a fertile idea in the discussion of image-making. The conjuring of illusions, the inherent link between the material and the spiritual and the wish to make the invisible visible are all part of this wider discourse. Visions of Enchantment looks at the fascinating intersections between esotericism and visual culture through a decidedly cross-cultural lens, with topics ranging from talismanic magic and the Renaissance exploration of alchemy, through to the role of magic in modern art and 20th century experimental film. The essays offered in 'Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture' have been selected from papers presented at a major international conference at the University of Cambridge in 2014. It includes work by some of the leading scholars in Western Esotericism including Antoine Faivre, M.E. Warlick and Deanna Petherbridge. It attests to the vibrant role that magic and the occult play in cutting-edge research across a wide variety of the arts and humanities today.
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Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • Contributions to a conference held in 2014 at the University of Cambridge, England.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface -- Introduction: The magic of art -- 'Go wherever you wish, for verily you are well protected': Seal designs in late Ottoman amulet scrolls and prayer books -- Protection against evil in Byzantium: Magical amulets and their survival from the early to the late Byzantine period -- Fascinated by fascination: Female privacy and the Leipzig 'love magic' panel -- Leaking, shrieking and venomous bodies: European witch imagery in the sixteenth century -- Visual art in Christian theosophy: Engravings in Jacob Böhme's Works (1682) and in the eighteenth century -- Mercury, Venus and alchemy in Rudolfian Prague: Batholomaeus Spranger's variations on Correggio's Education of Eros -- The alchemical androgyne: The rewards and pitfalls of a feminist approach -- The magician, the mermaid and the ouroboros: Franz von Stuck and the iconography of alchemy -- The devil's livery: The role of nudity in the depiction of witchcraft, wicca and Satanism -- A witch in search of myth: Enchanted visions of female transgression and empowerment in the oeuvre of Leonora Carrington -- The wedding of light and matter: Alchemy and magic in the films of Derek Jarman -- Contributors.
ISBN
  • 9781527228825
  • 1527228827
LCCN
99982913801
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries