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Magic
Beyond the Supernatural in Contemporary Art
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A lavishly illustrated magical volume and a potent talisman, exploring threads between magic and contemporary art across the globe.
A lavishly illustrated magical volume and a potent talisman, exploring threads between magic and contemporary art across the globe.
Magic examines how magic and occult practice continue to shape contemporary art, exploring the persistent and changing ways in which magic and esotericism have been significant drivers of contemporary artistic practice ranging from around 2010 to the present. Moving beyond symbolism, it foregrounds practice, context and artists' lived relationships with the numinous across global and transnational perspectives. It offers an in-depth exploration of the occult and its relationship to contemporary art and culture including witchcraft, alchemy and AI, neo-paganism, spells, sacred geometry, psychic energies, divination and astrology, tarot and cryptids through an expansive range of mediums, demonstrating that occult, esotericism and magical themes in art are not a passing trend, but an enduring, universal framework for the complexity of the human experience.
Magic examines how magic and occult practice continue to shape contemporary art, exploring the persistent and changing ways in which magic and esotericism have been significant drivers of contemporary artistic practice ranging from around 2010 to the present. Moving beyond symbolism, it foregrounds practice, context and artists' lived relationships with the numinous across global and transnational perspectives. It offers an in-depth exploration of the occult and its relationship to contemporary art and culture including witchcraft, alchemy and AI, neo-paganism, spells, sacred geometry, psychic energies, divination and astrology, tarot and cryptids through an expansive range of mediums, demonstrating that occult, esotericism and magical themes in art are not a passing trend, but an enduring, universal framework for the complexity of the human experience.
Extent: 196 pp
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2026-10-29
Size: 22.6 x 19.9 cm
ISBN: 9781917055277
About the Author
Dr Amy Hale is an Atlanta-based writer, curator, and critic, ethnographer and folklorist, speaking and writing about esoteric history, magic, art, culture, women and Cornwall. She writes and speaks on topics as diverse as psychogeography, Pagan religious tourism, colour theory, and politics in modern Paganism. Hale has written widely on the surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, including Bonsoir (2022) and Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love (2024). As a gallery writer and essayist, she has contributed essays for Tate, Burlington Contemporary, The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Correspondences Journal, Camden Arts Centre, Art UK, Heavenly Records and Spike Island.
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