Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture Edited by Daniel Zamani, Judith Noble and Merlin Cox (Fulgur Press, 2019) Hardcover
Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture Edited by Daniel Zamani, Judith Noble and Merlin Cox (Fulgur Press, 2019) Hardcover
Daniel Zamani, Judith Noble and Merlin Cox, editors. Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture. London: Fulgur Press, 2019. Cloth hardcover with dust jacket. 185 pages.
Condition: Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Very slight shelf wear along edges of dust jacket.
Description from the publisher:
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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Contents
Edited by Judith Noble, Daniel Zamani and Merlin Cox
Introduction: The Magic of Art – Judith Noble, Daniel Zamani and Gražina Subelytė
- ‘Go Wherever You Wish, for Verily You Are Well Protected’: Seal Designs in Late Ottoman Amulet Scrolls and Prayer Books – Christiane Gruber
- Protection against Evil in Byzantium: Magical Amulets and Their Survival from the Early to the Late Byzantine Period – Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie
- Fascinated by Fascination: Female Privacy and the Leipzig Love Magic Panel – D. Lyle Dechant
- Leaking, Shrieking and Venomous Bodies: European Witch Imagery in the Sixteenth Century – Deanna Petherbridge
- Visual Art in Christian Theosophy: Engravings in Jakob Böhme’s Works (1682) and in the Eighteenth Century – Antoine Faivre
- Mercury, Venus and Alchemy in Rudolfian Prague: Bartholomaeus Spranger’s Variations on Correggio’s Education of Eros – Nikola Piperkov
- The Alchemical Androgyne: The Rewards and Pitfalls of a Feminist Approach – M. E. Warlick
- The Magician, the Mermaid and the Ouroboros: Franz von Stuck and the Iconography of Alchemy – Nathan J. Timpano
- The Devil’s Livery: The Role of Nudity in the Depiction of Witchcraft, Wicca and Satanism – Leo Ruickbie
- A Witch in Search of Myth: Enchanted Visions of Female Transgression and Empowerment in the Oeuvre of Leonora Carrington – Victoria Ferentinou
- The Wedding of Light and Matter: Alchemy and Magic in the Films of Derek Jarman – Judith Noble
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