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The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism
A profound understanding of the surrealists’ connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works • Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to seek out unexplored regions of the mind and recover lost “psychic” and magical powers • Provides many examples of esoteric influence in surrealism, such as how Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon was originally titled The Bath of the Philosophers Not merely an artistic or literary movement as many believe, the surrealists rejected the labels of artist and author bestowed upon them by outsiders, acce...
The Contested Crown
"This book explores the travels and travails of a fabulous headdress reputed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. This feather crown was brought to Europe by Hernando Cortez following the conquest of Mexico. Not long after it arrived in Europe, it was placed in the "cabinet of curiosities" at Ambras Castle, the Austrian residence of the author's ancestors. From there the headdress was removed to Vienna's Weltmuseum in the early nineteenth century, where it has been on view ever since. "El Penacho," as the headdress is called, is considered a national treasure by both Austria and Mexico. The crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles. Th...
The Exteriority Crisis: From the City Limits and Beyond
In its corners, streets, gates, bars, squares, boulevards, gardens, parks and cafés, the city maintains some of the focal points of “its†unconscious. These are found and explored everyday by surrealists who obtain the essential experience of surreality in metropolitan life. The concrete experience of exteriority (which in the following collective essay we concentrate only on the city limits and beyond them) requires from us a disposition closely akin not only to the sensible renewal of people, but also to existence and its poetic reserves, and to the revitalization of the interior life that is suffering a process of sterilization because of the convulsive technologization of interiority and the progressive forgetting of life outside.With texts and photos by: Mattias Forshage, Miguel P. Corrales, José Manuel Rojo, Bruno Jacobs, Guy Girard, Manuel Crespo, Eric W. Bragg, à ngel Zapata, Noé Ortega Quijano, Julio Monteverde, Vicente Gutiérrez, Silvia Guiard, Eugenio Castro
Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy
Inspired by the ideas contained in the newly recovered ancient sources, Renaissance humanists questioned the traditional teachings of universities. Humanistically trained physicians, called “medical humanists,” were particularly active in the field of natural philosophy, where alternative approaches were launched and tested. Their intellectual outcome contributed to the reorientation of philosophy toward natural questions, which were to become crucial in the seventeenth century. This volume explores six medical humanists of diverse geographical and confessional origins (Leoniceno, Fernel, Schegk, Gemma, Liceti and Sennert) and their debates on matter, life and the soul. The study of these debates sheds new light on the contributions of humanist culture to the evolution of early modern natural philosophy
Historical Dictionary of Surrealism
Despite surrealism's celebration of the subconscious and eschewal of reason, the movement was nevertheless concerned with definitions. Andre Breton included a dictionary-style entry for surrealisme in his 1924 Manifeste du surrealisme and later explored juxtapositions of the absurd and the mundane in the 1938 Dictionnaire abrege du surrealisme. To the mountain of literature that seeks to organize the far-reaching intellectual movement, Aspley (honorary fellow, Univ. of Edinburgh) adds this handy volume that organizes the breadth of surrealism into concise entries on artists, writers, artworks, and themes. A chronology highlights events that sparked the surrealist imagination, activities of f...
Chymia
In September 2008, an international conference on the history of alchemy was held at El Escorial, close to the ancient location of the distilling houses operating under royal patronage during the second half of the 16th century. The present book consists of a selection of the papers presented then, shedding light on little-studied medieval and early modern texts, important alchemical doctrines such as medieval corpuscularianism, early modern spiritus mundi or the function of salt within chymical principles, and discussing such prominent figures as Paracelsus, Isaac Hollandus, Michael Sendivogius, Fontenelle or G. E. Stahl. Last but not least, the book offers new insights on the most recent history of Spanish alchemy.
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The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism
Presenting, in 3 volumes, the first comprehensive and international overview of one of the most influential and enduring of 20th-century art movements.
Goldmacher-Geschichte(n)
Frühneuzeitliche Chemiker erörterten ihr Wissen in Tausenden von Briefen, es entstand ein wissenschaftliches Netzwerk, das sich über ganz Europa erstreckte. Neben medizinisch-pharmazeutischen und technologischen Themen waren die Versuche zur Goldmacherei von besonderem Interesse. Eine Transmutation von Metallen wurde nach der damaligen Materietheorie als möglich angesehen und wurde deshalb von vielen angesehenen und ehrbaren Wissenschaftlern in Angriff genommen. Dies geschah aber nicht nur an den Fürstenhöfen mit ihrem immensen Geldbedarf, sondern erfasste auch das Bürgertum. Franz Kretschmer, der fürstlich brandenburgische Bergmeister im oberfränkischen Goldkronach, ist ein beredtes Beispiel dafür. Seine erhaltenen Briefe verdeutlichen, dass die Begehrlichkeit nach Gold alle Bevölkerungsschichten erfasst hatte. Aus den Schriftstücken konnten neue Erkenntnisse über die beteiligten Chemiker sowie ihre chemischen Versuche zur Goldmacherei in Verbindung mit dem bergmännischen Abbau des Edelmetalls gewonnen werden.
