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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> 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.htmlSurrealism
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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