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EDGE OF THE CIRCLE BOOKS IS PROUD TO
PRESENT THE FOLLOWING NEW TITLES:
ABRAXAS SPECIAL ISSUE 1Charming Intentions: Occultism, Magic and
the History of Art
Edited by Daniel Zamani
4to (290mm x
232mm)
128 pages,
richly illustrated in full colour
Standard Issue,
List Price: $25.00
900 copies only:
Sewn Paperback Edition
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Our first
Special Issue of Abraxas Journal offers 128 large format pages of essays and
art drawn from selected papers presented at the 2012 University of Cambridge
Conference, Charming Intentions: Occultism, Magic and the History of Art. The
entire issue is richly illustrated in full colour and includes many images
published for the first time, including (in something of an exclusive)
wonderful close-up studies of the Ripley Scrolls. Printed using
state-of-the-art offset lithography to our usual high standard, this special
issue of Abraxas is not to missed.
CONTENTS
Introduction
By Daniel Zamani
Impurity, Auspiciousness and Power: The
Tantric Transformations of Lajja Gauri at Kamakhya
By Imma Ramos
A Printed Islamic Amulet
By Shandra E. Lamaute
Homo Signorum: Looking to God or Looking
to the Stars? The Role of the Body in Medieval Christianity
By Monika Winiarczyk
Speculum Lapidum: Some Reflections on
Sixteenth-Century Intaglios and Astral Magic
By Liliana Leopardi
Open Secrets: Alchemical–Hermetic Imagery
in the Ripley Scrolls
By Alexandra Marraccini
Unseen Spirits? Occult Tradition in
Italian Futurist Art and Theory
By Lisa Hanstein
The Magician Triumphant: Occultism and
Political Resistance in Victor Brauner’s Le Surréaliste (1947)
By Daniel Zamani
The Magic of Time and Space: Occultism in
the Films of Maya Deren
By Judith Noble
HERE TO GO:
Art, Counter Culture and the Esoteric,
2012
Edited by Carl Abrahamsson
Edda Publishing, 2012
FROM THE
PUBLISHER:
Here To Go 2012
is an anthology published together with the Here To Go: Art, Counter Culture
and the Esoteric symposium in Trondheim, Norway. It contains texts and essays
by all the speakers of the symposium: Carl Abrahamsson, Karen Nikgol, Kendell
Geers, Gary Lachman, Andrew M McKenzie and Jesper Aagaard Petersen. In the book
is also an additional text by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. The themes are varied:
Crowley on film, occulture, the cut ups, megapolisomancy, the magic of fact vs
fiction, the scenography of no-mind, and many other things.
Published 2012.
80 pages in size A5 (148 x 210 mm) . 400 softbound copies , Standard edition:
$32.95
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