The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema (eBook)

Tessel M. Bauduin is Postdoctoral Research Associate in Art History at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  Henrik Johnsson is Associate Professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Tromsø, Norway. 

1          Introduction: Conceptualizing Occult Modernism

Tessel M. Bauduin and Henrik Johnsson

2          A History of Research into Occult Modernist Literature

Henrik Johnsson

 

Part I Artistic Practices

 

3                    Visionary Mimesis and Occult Modernism in Literature and Art Around 1900

Gísli Magnússon

4          August Strindberg’s Art in Modernist and Occult Context

            Marja Lahelma 5                    ‘Only Poets and Occultists Believe in Them Just Now’: Fairies and the Modernist Crisis of Authorship 

Per Faxneld

 

Part II Aesthetics

 

6          Return from Oblivion: Joséphin Péladan’s Literary Esotericism

Sasha Chaitow 7                    Ghosts Before Breakfast: The Appetite for the Beyond in Early Avant-Garde Film

Benedikt Hjartarson

8                    Marie Wilson and Nanos Valaoritis in Conversation: Surrealism, Imagetext, and Occult Aesthetics in Terre de Diamant

Victoria Ferentinou

 

Part III Occulture

 

9                    Magic Art Between the Primitive and the Occult: Animal Sacrifice in Jan Švankmajer’s Drawer Fetishes

Kristoffer Noheden 10        Retrogardism and Occulture in Håkan Sandell’s Poetry

Giuliano D’Amico