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Genius of the Fern Loved Gully
The Supersensual Life of Ithell Colquhoun, Artist and Occultist
First published 2019
What the critics said
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Possessed of Alchemystic Powers
In 1949 Ithell Colquhoun—artist, writer, and occultist—produced a manifesto, titled “The Mantic Stain,” in which she called on her readers to follow French Surrealism’s practice of “pure psychic automatism.” It was, Breton wrote, “the real working of thought. Dictation of thought, without any…
Marina Warner
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Subjects
- Headings
- Artists · Women artists · Occultists · Occultism · English Authors · Surrealism · Modernism (Art)
Catalogue record
- Author
- Hale, Amy
- Statement
- Genius of the Fern Loved Gully : The Supersensual Life of Ithell Colquhoun, Artist and Occultist / Amy Hale.
Book facts
- Publisher
- MIT Press, 2019
- Pages
- 336
- LC
- N6797.C5926 H35 2020
- ISBN
- 978-1-907222-86-3
- Records
- Open Library OCLC 1090374174