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the archives of Tony Oursler

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the archives of Tony Oursler

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"Oracle, apparitions, angels, religion, sympathetic magic, Spencer Collection, shrunken heads, witches, voodoo, hoodoo, tarot, palm reading, fortune tellers, rituals, druids, Aleister Crowley, Charles Manson, snake cults, cults, Lily Dale, Oneida Perfectionists, Satan worship, demonology, poltergeists, extrasensory perception, pseudoscience, alchemy, flat earth theory, science, Wilhelm Reich, effigies, automatons, electricity, influence machines, Giovanni Aldini, Robert Cornish, magnets, mesmerism, hypnotism, psychology, Rorschach test, phrenology, pareidolia, spiders on drugs, drugs, puppets, Halloween, theater, optics, magic lanterns, Isaac Newton, infrered photography, Robert W. Wood, color theory, ultraviolet light, rocks, hallucinations, ghosts, Pepper's ghost, crypts, Cabaret du Néant, phantasmagoria, skeletons, Georges Méliès, cinema, movie theaters, horror movies, Federico Fellini, ghost show, magic tricks, Fakir magic, levitation, magicians, Harry Houdini, debunking, Harry Price, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fulton Oursler, Samri Frikell, Cottingley fairies, Margery Crandon, automatic writing, Falconer brothers, Crewe circle, ouija boards, alien writing, psychics, mediums, Goligher circle, Eusapia Palladino, Camille Flammarion, Marie Curie, radioactivity, x-rays, seances, Fiat Lux, spirit horns, ectoplasm, Eva C., Katie King, William Crookes, Robert Hare, television, spirit photography, William Mumler, Camp Chesterfield, Andrew Jackson Davis, Fox sisters, telegraph, Oliver Lodge, Thomas Edison, Scopes trial, evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace, Piltdown Man, cryptozoology, nudists, politics, Weather Underground, spirit art, Madge Gill, Odic force, crystals, Charles Littlefield, Kirlian photography, David Bowie, Hippolyte Baraduc, fluidic photography, Louis Darget, thought photography, aliens, UFOs, astrology, Halley's comet, moon"--Cover.

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English
Pages
655

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Imponderable: the archives of Tony Oursler
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Table of Contents

Life in the archives -- Maja Hoffmann, Tom Eccles, Beatrix Ruf
The archives : a photographic record -- sequenced by Tony Oursler
Secrets of debunking -- Peter Lamont
Science? Machines? Magic? Art? (Pondering Tony Oursler's Imponderable archive) -- Tom Gunning
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better -- Christopher Turner
Invisibilities : Mesmer in the archives -- Stephanie O'Rourke
Tony Oursler's phantasmagorias -- Noam Elcott
Flickering illusions : witchcraft behind the camera -- Jim Steinmeyer
Of linking rings and magic lanterns : Tony Oursler's family gothic -- Fred Nadis
Sui generis : Margery the medium -- a conversation between Anna Thurlow and Tony Oursler
Power from elsewhere : charismatic authority and the American female medium -- Karen Beckman
The authorless medium? -- Jordan Bear
Psychogeography : from spirits to thought photography -- Pascal Rousseau
Nose-to-nose with a mutant : UFO photography -- Branden W. Joseph
The Spencer Collection : the historical archive at the heart of the Oursler Archives -- H. Darrel Rutkin.

Edition Notes

Produced in conjunction with the exhibition on view at Les Forges, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France, July 6-September 20, 2015.

Rare Book copy: In original slipcase.

Includes bibliographical references.

Catalog in English with translations in French.

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Zurich

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Dewey Decimal Class
709.2
Library of Congress
N6537.O95 A4 2015

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Pagination
655 pages
Number of pages
655

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL44459157M
ISBN 10
3037644265
ISBN 13
9783037644263
OCLC/WorldCat
910702857

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