Modern spiritualism and Scottish art: Scots, spirits and séances, 1860-1940

"This pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late 19th and early 20th-century Scotland is a compelling history of the international movement’s cultural impact on Scottish art. From spirit-mediums creating séance art to mainstream artists of the Royal Scottish Academy, this exposition reve...

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1. Verfasser: Foot, Michelle (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2023
Schriftenreihe:Bloomsbury collections
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Zusammenfassung:"This pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late 19th and early 20th-century Scotland is a compelling history of the international movement’s cultural impact on Scottish art. From spirit-mediums creating séance art to mainstream artists of the Royal Scottish Academy, this exposition reveals for the first time the extent of Spiritualist interest in Scotland. With its interdisciplinary scope, Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art combines cultural and art history to explore the ways in which Scottish art reflected Spiritualist beliefs at the turn of the 20th century. More than simply a history of the Spiritualist cause and its visual manifestations, this book also provides a detailed account of scepticism, psychical research and occulture in modern Scotland, and the role that these aspects played in informing responses to Spiritualist ideology. Utilising extensive archival research, together with in-depth analyses of overlooked paintings, drawings and sculpture, Michelle Foot demonstrates the vital importance of Spiritualist art to the development of Spiritualism in Scotland during the 19th century. In doing so, the book highlights the contribution of Scottish visual artists alongside better-known Spiritualists such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Daniel Dunglas Home. In the nineteenth century Modern Spiritualism found followers in Scotland who were ready to become its advocates, its thinkers, its leaders, its spirit-mediums and its artists. In the early-twentieth century Spiritualism reciprocated by giving Scottish artists ways of seeing the unseen and making the invisible visible, permeating Scottish art and culture with its ideas and beliefs. This pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Scotland is a compelling history of the international movement’s cultural impact on Scottish art [...]."
Beschreibung:Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 284 Seiten, 16 Seiten Tafeln) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781350405844
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DOI:10.5040/9781350405844

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