Somewhat difficult to locate now but a worthwhile study in many respects is: The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, Abbeville Press, 1986, originally done for the Los Angeles Museum of Art for an exhibit.
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From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of David Green
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Wow, thanks everyone. I might just write a solo book too after digesting that lot!! I would also like to hear from any potential contributors to see if an edited collection is viable.
Dave
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don't forget Arthur Versluis' Restoring Paradise: Western Esotericism, Literature, Art, and Consciousness,
and his anthology, Esotericism, Art, and Imagination.
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Date: Monday, November 30, 2009, 11:58 AM
Excellent stuff - plenty there to get stuck into!
May I also add:
Surrealism and the Occult by Nadia Choucha.
Oxford : Mandrake, 1991.
and, specifically on Duchamp:
Alchemist of the avant-garde: the case of Marcel Duchamp / John F.
Moffitt.
Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.
(SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions)
~~ Christopher
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Sent: 30 November 2009 17:49
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David Green doth schreibble :
>
> I am thinking about editing a collected book on the relationship
between art
> and magic/the occult. There seems to be a huge gap in terms of books
in this
> area despite obvious parallels.
Great Idea! Here is a brief sample of the
offerings currently available in this area :
'Art in the Epoch of the Great Spiritual' :
Occult Elements in the Early Theory of
Abstract Painting, in the Journal of the
Warburg and Courtauld Institutes,
vol. 29, pages 386-418,
by Sixten Ringbom, 1966.
The Occult Underground :
The Dawn of the New Age and
The Occult Establishment,
Chapter 5 : Visions of Heaven and Hell,
by James Webb, 1974
Art and the Occult,
by Paul Waldo Schwartz, 1975.
Occult Symbolism in France :
Joseph Peladan and the Salons
de la Rose-Croix,
by Robert Pincus-Witten, 1976.
Women as Mythmakers : Poetry and
Visual Art by Twentieth-Century
Women, by Estella Lauter, 1984.
The Spiritual in Art :
Abstract Painting, 1890-1985,
by Maurice Tuchman et al, 1986.
Occultism, Anarchism, and Abstraction :
Kandinsky's Art of the Future, in
Art Journal, 46 : 1, pages 38-45,
by Rose Carol Washton Long, 1987.
An Art of Our Own :
The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art,
by Roger Lipsey, 1989.
Modern Art and the Occult,
by Hamilton Reed Armstrong
( Crisis Magazine, February 1990 )
http://www.agdei.com/Occult.html
Surrealism and Women, edited by
Mary Ann Caws, Rudolf E. Kuenzli,
and Gwen Raaberg, 1991.
Art and Symbols of the Occult,
by James Wasserman, 1993.
Bright Colors Falsely Seen :
Synaesthesia and the Search for
Transcendental Knowledge,
by Kevin T. Dann, 1998.
Art Brut : The Origins of Outsider Art,
by Lucienne Peiry, 2001.
The Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art,
by Roger Lipsey, 2004.
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