Foot, Michelle, Modern spiritualism and Scottish art , 2023
- Title(s):
- Modern spiritualism and Scottish art : Scots, spirits and séances, 1860-1940 / Michelle Foot.
- Additional Title(s):
- Modern spiritualism and Scottish art between 1860 and 1940
- Published/Created:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.
©2023 - Physical Description:
- x, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryN6778 .F66 2023 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16917518
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Aberdeen, 2016.
"This pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late 19th and early 20th-century Scotland is a compelling history of the international movement's cultural impact on Scottish art. From spirit-mediums creating séance art to mainstream artists of the Royal Scottish Academy, this exposition reveals for the first time the extent of Spiritualist interest in Scotland. With its interdisciplinary scope, Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art combines cultural and art history to explore the ways in which Scottish art reflected Spiritualist beliefs at the turn of the 20th century. More than simply a history of the Spiritualist cause and its visual manifestations, this book also provides a detailed account of scepticism, psychical research, and occulture in modern Scotland, and the role that these aspects played in informing responses to Spiritualist ideology. Utilising extensive archival research, together with in-depth analyses of overlooked paintings, drawings and sculpture, Michelle Foot demonstrates the vital importance of Spiritualist art to the development of Spiritualism in Scotland during the 19th century. In doing so, the book highlights the contribution of Scottish visual artists alongside better-known Spiritualists such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Daniel Dunglas Home"-- Provided by publisher. - Subject Terms:
- Art and society -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.Art and society.Art, Scottish -- 19th century -- Themes, motives.Science and spiritualism -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.Science and spiritualism.Scotland.Spiritualism in art.Spiritualism in art.
- Form/Genre:
- History.
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