Occult practices, s ances and magic have traditionally been met with suspicion in the world of high culture, but they are currently getting a fresh look. Turns out, they have long had a quiet influence on art--at least since the mid-1800s. The Message demonstrates this fascinating history with paranormal-influenced paintings, drawings and thought photographs, a term for the phenomenon of imprinting an image from one's mind directly onto a photographic medium--something we've all at least wished we could do... By the early eighteenth century, the occult had found a home in the arts with the advent of Surrealism--in 1933, Andr Breton discussed these inexplicable phenomena in his text, The Automatic Message. This publication borrows its name from Breton's text; and features early-twentieth-century photographs of s ances from the archive of parapsychologist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, which vividly illustrate Breton's ideas.
- ISBN10 3865603424
- ISBN13 9783865603425
- Publish Date 27 November 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 August 2012
- Publish Country DE
- Imprint Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English