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Artist Tony Oursler has amassed a vast personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience, and technology. This publication features up to 2,500 objects from Oursler's collection, including photographs, prints, historic manuscripts, rare books, letters, and objects. Additional topics include stage magic, thought photography, demonology, cryptozoology, optics, mesmerism, automatic writing, hypnotism, fairies, cults, the occult, color theory, and UFOs. Linking these wide-ranging materials is Oursler's underlying interest in belief systems and human nature; the suspension of disbelief, or perhaps just our propensity to believe. The material in Oursler's collection broadens recent explorations of technology and mystical cultural production, investigating the relationships between science, pseudo-science, religion, and the occult with visual and archival documents that demonstrate the power of images to carry and challenge our most cherished beliefs.

Oursler, Tony, --- kunst --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Oursler Tony --- hekserij --- spiritisme --- vliegende schotels --- UFO's --- Mesmer Franz Anton --- 7.071 OURSLER --- archivering --- archieven --- Verenigde Staten --- twintigste eeuw --- magie --- Exhibitions --- Oursler, Tony, - 1957 --- -Oursler, Tony, - 1957-