TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mays,Sas
AU  - Matheson,Neil
TI  - The machine and the ghost: Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture
SN  - 9781526112118
AV  - ND1460.O25.M334 2013 
U1  - 700.47 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Spiritualism in art
KW  - Technology and the arts
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Spiritisme dans l'art
KW  - Technologie et arts
KW  - Art
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Thèmes, motifs
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - ART
KW  - Performance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - India & South Asia
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The machine and the ghost: Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth-to twenty-first-century art and culture; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: technologies, spiritualisms, and modernities: Sas Mays and Neil Matheson; 1. 'It's organisms that die, notlife': Henri Bergson, psychical research, and the contemporary uses of vitalism: Justin Sausman; 2. Typewriter, pianola, slate, phonograph: recording technologies and automisation: Aura Satz; 3. 'Miraculous constellations in realmaterial': spiritualist phenomena, Dada photomontage, and magic: Leigh Wilson4. Ectoplasm and photography: mediumistic performances for camera: Neil Matheson; 5. Invasions and fakes: Susan Hiller in conversation with Alexandra Kokoli; 6. Image, technology, enchantment: Marina Warner in conversation with Dan Smith; 7. What happens in the gaps: An interview with Suzanne Treister by Roger Luckhurst; 8. The ghosts of media past and present: spirit photography and contemporary art: Ben Burbridge¹; 9. From the premodern to the postmodern: mnemotechnics and the ghost of 'the folk': Sas Mays10. Ruskin's haunted nature: art and the spectre of ecological catastrophe: Charlie Gere; Index
N2  - Focusing on our complex relationship with technology, The machine and the ghost explores our culture's continued fascination with the spectral, the ghostly and the paranormal. Through a series of critical case studies and artists' discussions, this lively new collection examines topics ranging from contemporary art to cultural theory. Produced with renowned specialists within the field, including the artist Susan Hiller and the writer Marina Warner, the book combines the historical with the contemporary in exploring how the visual culture of paranormal phenomena continues to haunt our imaginat
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