Magic

Magic
Jamie Sutcliffe
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Paperback
h210 x 146mm - 240pg
14 Sep 2021 US
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9780262543033
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The first accessible reader on magic' s generative relationship with contemporary art practice. This volume brings together for the first time writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences between contemporary art and magical consciousness. From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic furnishes the contemporary imagination with complex bodies of arcane thought that have inspired artists to reconsider the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic. Dispensing with simple narratives of re-enchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous, and shows how magical culture' s tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption have provided contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that boldly questions socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care. Magic deciphers the evolution of a "magical-critical" thinking that necessarily complicates and contradicts the boundaries of a capitalist-realist malaise.

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Jamie Sutcliffe is a writer, curator, and codirector of Strange Attractor Press. His writings have appeared in Art Monthly, Frieze, Rhizome, and other publications.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780262543033
Published: 14 Sep 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: MIT Press
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 146mm
Pages: 240

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