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Imponderable : the archives of Tony Oursler / editor, Anne Wehr.

Fine Arts Library N6537.O95 A4 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Oursler, Tony, artist.
Contributor:
Wehr, Anne, editor.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
Bard College. Center for Curatorial Studies, host institution.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Oursler, Tony--Archives--Exhibitions.
Oursler, Tony.
Occultism--Archives--Exhibitions.
Occultism.
Archives.
Genre:
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
520 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Edition:
Second edition.
Place of Publication:
Zurich : Luma Foundation, [2016]
Language Note:
Catalog in English with translations in French.
Contents:
Life in the archives / Maja Hoffmann, Tom Eccles, Beatrix Ruf
The archives : a photographic record / sequenced by Tony Oursler
Secrets of debunking / Peter Lamont
Science? Machines? Magic? Art? (Pondering Tony Oursler's Imponderable archive) / Tom Gunning
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better / Christopher Turner
Invisibilities : Mesmer in the archives / Stephanie O'Rourke
Tony Oursler's phantasmagorias / Noam Elcott
Flickering illusions : witchcraft behind the camera / Jim Steinmeyer
Of linking rings and magic lanterns : Tony Oursler's family gothic / Fred Nadis
Sui generis : Margery the medium / a conversation between Anna Thurlow and Tony Oursler
Power from elsewhere : charismatic authority and the American female medium / Karen Beckman
The authorless medium? / Jordan Bear
Psychography : from spirits to thought photography / Pascal Rousseau
Nose-to-nose with a mutant : UFO photography / Branden W. Joseph
The Spencer Collection : the historical archive at the heart of the Oursler Archives / H. Darrel Rutkin.
Notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Tony Oursler: imponderable," curated by Stuart Comer and Erica Papernik-Shimizu and held at The Museum of Mordern Art, New York, June 18, 2016-January 1, 2017 and "Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive," curated by Tom Eccles and Beatrix Ruf and held at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York, June 24-October 30, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
3037644753
9783037644751
OCLC:
952369835

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