Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3037644753 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 520 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
offers a dialectical view into a twilight world both distant and familiar, an archaic domain and one whose UFO and seance photos could be lifted from sci-fi and horror films (Albert Mobilio Bookforum)
. Oursler vit et travaille a New York. Beatrix Ruf is director of Amsterdam s Stedelijk Museum and was director of Kunsthalle Zurich from 2001 to 2014.Tony Oursler a obtenu son baccalaureat en arts visuels au California Institute of the Arts de Valencia en 1979. Sa production artistique fait appel a une multitude de techniques: video,
"Browsing the bizarre" according to Art Shapiro. This is a truly extraordinary collection of STUFF relating to the paranormal and bizarre. Some of it is much stranger than other stuff, but all of it is fascinating. It is only nominally organized, making it great fun to open at random, including at parties. It is the perfect shelf companion to the work of Ricky Jay.. Five Stars Amazing!
Now in an English-only edition published for two parallel exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art and Bard College, Imponderable features highlights from the incredible magic and occult collection of New York–based artist Tony Oursler (born 1957). For Oursler, the archive functions as an open visual resource, historical inquiry andmost intriguinglya family history. Additional topics include stage magic, thought photography, demonology, cryptozoology, optics, mesmerism, automatic writing, hypnotism, fairies, cults, the occult, color theory and UFOs. Thirteen essays by renowned art historians, science specialists and international scholars provide a deep insight into this unique material.. Since the late 1990s, Oursler has been amassing a vast personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience and technology. One of the collection’s many digressions records the friendship between the artist’s grandfather Charles Fulton Oursler (a famous early 20th-century author and publisher) and magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, and a historic interaction with Arthur Conan Doyle, who, beyond his Sherlock Holmes series, was an important advocate for spiritualism and the paranormal.This beautifully produced publicati