Format:
343 Seiten ;
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29 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-2267-8682-7
Content:
"Simply put, the history of American manifest destiny is written in blood and paved with ghosts: those of Native Americans, slaves, war casualties, and countless others caught in the crosshairs of our nation's "progress." Between the trauma, bloody wars, everyday violence, and the threat (always) of nuclear annihilation, a culture of the supernatural has long been part of our heritage. This quirky book is the exhibition catalogue for "the first major assessment of the supernatural in American art." As such, it studies works from the nineteenth century to the present day, works by artists exploring all manner of things spooky from séances to UFO sightings to possession to the ghosts that stalk our battlefields, lynching sites, and the space of other unhappy adventures. The exhibition itself promises to be strong-minded and colorful. Many of the artworks on the walls and in the pages of the catalogue are captivating, creepy, or occasionally just plain silly as they explore contacts between the living and the uncanny"--
Note:
Impressum: What you see materialized in conjunction with the exhibition "Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art", curated by Robert Cozzolino with the assistance of Heather Everhart, and organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (...) The exhibition appeared at the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, from June 12 to September 5, 2021, before traveling to the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, where it was present from October 7, 2021, to January 2, 2022. It had its finale where it all started, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, from February 19 to May 15, 2022
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Foreword
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Introduction : America is haunted
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Destinies manifest
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Hauntology
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Uncanny spaces
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Phantasmagoria
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"Things not tangible" : portraits, sitters and the supernatural
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Ghosts in the machines
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How to paint a ghost around 1900
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These unseen beings
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Dust
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Magic's deconstruction of art, science, and religion
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Wilson Bentley's army of souls
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Bringing the invisible to light : aura and psychic photography
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Black black magic
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The rootworker's worktable
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Popular culturea and the paranormal/supernatural
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Goddess, Body, and earth : feminist spirits in the 1970s
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Contemporary witch culture
Language:
English
Keywords:
Kunst
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Das Übernatürliche
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Parapsychologie
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