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MIT Press
30 November 2021

History of Art & Design Styles

Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art

The first accessible reader on magic's generative relationship with contemporary art practice.

The first accessible reader on magic's generative relationship with contemporary art practice.

From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and often disorienting bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences animating contemporary art's varied encounters with magical culture, inspiring a reconsideration of the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic.

Dispensing with simple narratives of reenchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture's tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care.

Tracing its various emergences through the shadows of modernity, the circuitries of ritual media, and declarations of psychic self-defence, Magic deciphers the evolution of a ""magical-critical"" thinking that productively complicates, contradicts and expands the boundaries of our increasingly weird present.

By: Jamie Sutcliffe
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 146mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780262543033
ISBN 10: 0262543036
Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 30 November 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction // 12 Magical-Critical // 22 Shadow Modern // 68 Ritual Media // 112 Psychic Self-Defence // 184 Biographical Notes // 231 Bibliography // 234 Index // 236 Acknowledgements // 239

Jamie Sutcliffe is a writer, curator, and codirector of Strange Attractor Press. His writings have appeared in Art Monthly, Frieze, Rhizome, and other publications.

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