Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (533 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3037644753 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 520 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Browsing the bizarre 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" according to mph. Amazing!
Sa production artistique fait appel a une multitude de techniques: video, sculpture, installation, performance et peinture. Oursler vit et travaille a New York. L'oeuvre d'Oursler a ete exposee dans des etablissements prestigieux tels le Walker Art Center de Minneapolis, les documenta VIII et IX de Cassel, le Museum of Modern Art et le Whitney Museum of American Art de New York, le Centre Georges-Pompidou de Par
For Oursler, the archive functions as an open visual resource, historical inquiry andmost intriguinglya family history. 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. 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). 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.. 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, wh
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)