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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"sympathetic magic"”.
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… states located in the non-Western Other. The magical principles relating to the fetish incorporate these abject states through body metaphors and mimetic principles of sympathetic magic. Fetish power in art operates through the exploitation of these body metaphors, reifying non-sensuous …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… states located in the non-Western Other. The magical principles relating to the fetish incorporate these abject states through body metaphors and mimetic principles of sympathetic magic. Fetish power in art operates through the exploitation of these body metaphors, reifying non-sensuous …
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The stories we tell ourselves: Joan Didion on the romantic fantasies of reality
… Towards Bethlehem (1968) and The Year of Magical Thinking (2005). I propose that a reading of these romantic fantasies is dependent on the distinction between “romantic” (lower case) and “Romantic” (capitalized). While Didion explores “romantic” fantasies of contemporary American existence …
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The Ageing of Little Red
… the use of saggar firing and the links to ‘sympathetic magic’ are examined, drawing upon Susan Stewart, James George Frazer and Richard Andree for both a contemporary and historical perspective. Smoked ceramic works and glass art are compared and contrasted in theme and technique with regard …
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Magic, astrology and music: the background to Marsilio Ficino's astrological music therapy and his role as a Renaissance magus
… the second two present his own attitudes towards magic, astrology and music. Chapter one is concerned with aspects of xnusica inundana as represented by Ficino's three main authorities, Plato, Hermes Trismegistus and Plotinus. Firstly I present the fundamental ideas underlying Ficino's mode of …
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Bloodied Hearts and Bawdy Planets: Greco-Roman Astrology and the Regenerative Force of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s <i>The Winter’s Tale</i>
<p>This thesis offers a new reading of William Shakespeare’s late play <em>The Winter’s Tale</em> (1623), positing that in order to understand this complex and eccentric work, we must read it with a complex and eccentric eye. In <em>The Winter’s Tale</em>, planets strike without warning, pulling at …