Publication Date: 29/09/2015
Artist Tony Oursler has amassed a vast personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience, and technology. For Oursler, the archive functions as an open visual resource, historical inquiry, and -- most intriguingly -- a family history.One of the collection's many digressions is the friendship between the artist's grandfather Charles Fulton Oursler -- a famous early 20th-century author and publisher -- and magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, their joint campaign against fraudulent mediums, and a historic interaction with Arthur Conan Doyle, who, beyond his Sherlock Holmes series, was an important advocate for spiritualism and the paranormal.This publication features up to 2,500 objects from Oursler's collection, including photographs, prints, historic manuscripts, rare books, letters, and objects.Additional topics include stage magic, thought photography, demonology, cryptozoology, optics, mesmerism, automatic writing, hypnotism, fairies, cults, the occult, color theory, and UFOs. Linking these wide-ranging materials is Oursler's underlying interest in belief systems and human nature--the suspension of disbelief, or perhaps just our propensity to believe.Published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Oursler's archive at LUMA Foundation in Arles, France. English and French text.
- ISBN:
- 9783037644263
- 9783037644263
- Category:
- Individual artists
- Publication Date:
- 29-09-2015
- Language:
- English, French
- Publisher:
- JRP Ringier Kunstverlag AG
- Country of origin:
- Switzerland
- Dimensions (mm):
- 254x203.2mm
- Weight:
- 2.95kg
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