Important PHANTASMAGORIA book announcement
&
Gothic Nightmares, the new TATE Britain exhibition.
Dear Visual Media visitors,
Nowadays the fascination and interest in the 'GOTHIC' genre is growing.
The name is given to an art-genre and literature dealing with themes of
terror and the supernatural.
In April 2006, Dr. Mervyn Heard's new book 'Phantasmagoria: The Secret Life
of the Magic Lantern' will be published by the Projection box.
(The latter publisher - books & CD-roms - is specialized in recent studies
in the Vintage Visual Media field; Pre-Cinema, optical entertainments,
Early Cinema, including facsimile editions of rare books in related fields)
As read on the announcing flyer you really can expect "a full-blooded
account of an extraordinary theatrical ghost-raising entertainment"
All on 312 pages, profusely illustrated!
For more information on this book see:
http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html
<http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html>
This is an announcement, as soon the book is available you will be informed
by the mailing group.
However, ordering information from Stephen Herbert is available from the
above linked web page, just follow, since it will be a nightmare if you
should miss this book.
Why?
Dr. Heard's new book is an inevitable source for the enthusiast in
'spectral pre-film & theatre techniques'.
It offers an in depth study on a lesser known part of pre-cinematographic
entertainment and popular theatre history.
The Phantasmagoria genre came to his climax during and shortly after the
French Revolution.
The Pepper's Ghost theatre technique was a 19th. Century even more popular
descendant of the Phantasmagoria, often performed in the Cabaret and small
theatres.
Dr. Mervyn Heard became involved in the TATE Britain's current exhibition,
'Gothic Nightmares, Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination'.
For this exhibition he produced a Phantasmagoria recreation, using slides
from various collections, including 'Early Visual Media' collection.
The 'Phantasmagoria' was a kind of animated slide and puppet show with
sound effects and shocking images giving spectators uncanny chills and
thrills.
The exhibition "Gothic Nightmares, Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic
Imagination", is now running until 1 may 2006.
For information on the exhibition follow the link on the exhibition page
see:
http://www.visual-media.be/exhibition.html
<http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html>
<http://www.visual-media.be/exhibition.html>
"Gothic Nightmares" will explore the work of Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) and
William Blake (1757-1827) in the context of the 'Gothic', the taste for
fantastic and supernatural themes which dominated British culture from
around 1770 to 1830. Featuring over 120 works by these artists and their
contemporaries, the exhibition will create a vivid image of a period of
cultural turmoil and daring artistic invention.
A most informative and lavishly illustrated catalogue catalogue is
available from the TATE's bookshop and will be announced soon on
Visual-Media publication page:
http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html
<http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html>
<http://www.visual-media.be/publications.html>
It is of utmost importance to emphasis that for the first time this popular
ghostly entertainment - THE PHANTASMAGORIA - is shown in the context of
'works of art' by well known painters such as Henry Fuseli (1741 - 1825),
William Blake (1757 - 1827) & others in one of England's major museums or
anywhere-else.
Early Visual Media recently created his own mailing group on GOOGLE.
Please register at http://groups.google.com/group/visual-media?lnk=srg
<BLOCKED::http://groups.google.com/group/visual-media?lnk=srg> and stay
informed via the web site's own group.
With Gothic greetings,
Thomas
<http://www.visual-media.be/> http://www.visual-media.be/
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