Supernatural America

The Paranormal in American Art

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history—the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars—are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation’s heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor but present and tangible, urgently calling for contact, these otherworldly visitors have been central to our national identity. Through times of mourning and trauma, artists have been integral to visualizing ghosts, whether national or personal, and in doing so have embraced the uncanny and the inexplicable. This stunning catalog, accompanying the first major exhibition to assess the spectral in American art, explores the numerous ways American artists have made sense of their own experiences of the paranormal and the supernatural, developing a rich visual culture of the intangible.Featuring artists from James McNeill Whistler and Kerry James Marshall to artist/mediums who made images with spirits during séances, this catalog covers more than two hundred years of the supernatural in American art. Here we find works that explore haunting, UFO sightings, and a broad range of experiential responses to other worldly contact.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-03
Mått:235 x 279 x 37 mm
Vikt:2 048 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226786827

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Konsthistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Robert Cozzolino is the Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Recensioner i media

"This exhibition catalogue covers more than 200 years of visualisations of paranormal phenomena and otherworldly contact, demonstrating a search for healing from the country's violent past by embracing the uncanny."-- "The Bookseller"

Innehållsförteckning

Director’s Foreword / Katherine C. LuberINTRODUCTION: AMERICA IS HAUNTED / Robert CozzolinoDESTINIES MANIFEST / John Jota LeañosHauntology / María del Pilar BlancoUNCANNY SPACES / Sarah BurnsPhantasmagoria / Wendy Bellion“THINGS NOT TANGIBLE”: PORTRAITS, SITTERS, AND THE SUPERNATURAL / Rachael Z. DeLueGhosts in the Machines / Brandon HodgeHOW TO PAINT A GHOST AROUND 1900 / Adam M. ThomasTHESE UNSEEN BEINGS / Robert CozzolinoDust / Tony OurslerMagic’s Deconstruction of Art, Science, and Religion / George P. HansenWILSON BENTLEY’S ARMY OF SOULS / Alexander NemerovBringing the Invisible to Light: Aura and Psychic Photography / Michelle DonnellyBLACK BLACK MAGIC / Bridget R. CooksThe Rootworker’s Worktable / Renée StoutContemporary Witch Culture / Lacey Prpić HedtkeGODDESS, BODY, AND EARTH: FEMINIST SPIRITS IN THE 1970S / Rachel MiddlemanPopular Culture and the Paranormal/Supernatural / Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockPlatesSelected BibliographyAppendix: Octopus SeriesExhibition ChecklistContributorsCurator’s AcknowledgmentsLenders to the ExhibitionPhotography Credits