¥22,000
Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler
A collection of works by American artist Tony Oursler that brings together his vast archive of magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience, and technology.
For Oursler, the archive serves as an open visual resource, a historical inquiry, and most importantly, a production. One could call it a historical inquiry, but Oursler is also interested in family history. The collection has many rambling digressions, based, for example, on the friendship between his grandfather, Charles Fulton Oursler, a famous early 20th century author and publisher, and the magician Harry Houdini, nicknamed the "Escape King," their joint campaign against fraudulent mediums, and his historical interaction with Arthur Conan Doyle, a key advocate of spiritualism and the paranormal. In addition, Osler has personally arranged the 1,200 items in this collection, including photographs, prints, historical manuscripts, rare books, letters and paranormal material relating to magic, psychic photography, demonology, cryptozoology, optics, mesmerism, automatic writing, hypnosis, fairies, cults, the occult, color theory and UFOs.
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Title: The Archives of Tony Oursler
Editors: Beatrix Ruf, Maja Hoffmann, Tom Eccles
Authors: Branden W. Joseph, Christopher Turner, Fred Nadis, Jim Steinmeyer, Jordan Bear, Karen Beckman, Noam Elcott, Peter Lamont, Stephanie O'Rourke, Tom Gunning
JRP | EDITIONS, May 2016
Soft cover, perfect binding
280 x 210 mm
520 pages
Text in English
Second edition
ISBN: 978-3-03764-475-1
¥22,000 -
Condition: Good/Age-friendly
For Oursler, the archive serves as an open visual resource, a historical inquiry, and most importantly, a production. One could call it a historical inquiry, but Oursler is also interested in family history. The collection has many rambling digressions, based, for example, on the friendship between his grandfather, Charles Fulton Oursler, a famous early 20th century author and publisher, and the magician Harry Houdini, nicknamed the "Escape King," their joint campaign against fraudulent mediums, and his historical interaction with Arthur Conan Doyle, a key advocate of spiritualism and the paranormal. In addition, Osler has personally arranged the 1,200 items in this collection, including photographs, prints, historical manuscripts, rare books, letters and paranormal material relating to magic, psychic photography, demonology, cryptozoology, optics, mesmerism, automatic writing, hypnosis, fairies, cults, the occult, color theory and UFOs.
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Title: The Archives of Tony Oursler
Editors: Beatrix Ruf, Maja Hoffmann, Tom Eccles
Authors: Branden W. Joseph, Christopher Turner, Fred Nadis, Jim Steinmeyer, Jordan Bear, Karen Beckman, Noam Elcott, Peter Lamont, Stephanie O'Rourke, Tom Gunning
JRP | EDITIONS, May 2016
Soft cover, perfect binding
280 x 210 mm
520 pages
Text in English
Second edition
ISBN: 978-3-03764-475-1
¥22,000 -
Condition: Good/Age-friendly