Magic - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0854882901 ISBN 13 : 9780854882908

Editeur : Whitechapel Gallery, 2021

Synopsis

This volume brings together for the first time writings by artists, magicians, historians and theorists which illuminate the vibrant correspondences between contemporary art and magical consciousness. From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic furnishes the contemporary imagination with complex bodies of arcane thought which have inspired artists to reconsider the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic. Dispensing with the simple narratives of re-enchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous, and shows how magical culture's tenedencies towards secrecy, occlusion and encryption have provided contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that boldly questions socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care. Magic deciphers the evolution of a 'magical-critical' thinking that necessarily complicates and contradicts the boundaries of a capitalist-realist malaise.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jamies Sutcliffe is a writer, curator and co-director of Strange Attractor Press. His writings have appeared in Art Monthly, Frieze, Rhizome, and The White Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Whitechapel Gallery
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0854882901
• ISBN 13: 9780854882908
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Sutcliffe Jamie
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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