Emblem XVII from Michael Maier,Atalanta fugiens (Oppenheim: Hieronymus Gallerus, J. Theodorus de Bry, 1618). Borrowed from Hyle
"The historians who make alchemy their particular interest are sometimes looked on as eccentrics: their methodology may be impeccable (I mean, good archival research, sound iconographic analyses), but their choice of subject matter makes them suspect. In that respect art historians who are interested in alchemy become one further example of the oil-and-water problem of mixing alchemy with any ‘legitimate’ discipline." - excerpt & illustration from James Elkins' Four Ways of Measuring the Distance
Between Alchemy and Contemporary Art (2003)
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alkamy, care thee? or care thee not?
- from a new novel by Neal Stephenson
majik!
what would you do if you were paddling your little boat around the pond and four ascending filigreed balls of fire got in your way?
Isn't it more appropriate to ask what I would feel?
Just saying.
(majik!)
you mean, like, would you change state?
by the way, this image came from the first link I got when I googled 'majik'.
We discussed Maier some years ago in this comment (and the links are still good!) I never did get the tape back from Bill. Several of my Christmas Cards are essentially alchemical devices. Adam McLean remains a good source for a non-obsucuritan explication of alchemical images.
majik!!!!!
youve an elephants memory a w.
I was thinking that too, thanks for the links Alex.
L.M. everytime you say majik I think about the Uri Geller autobiography I read this summer. I quote:
Much sooner than I had expected there was suddenly nobody in front of me except Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and their personal entourage. This is it, Geller, I thought.
Mrs. Carter recognized me at once and brok the tension. "Oh Jimmy," she exclaimed, "this is Uri Geller. You remember the you Israeli I told you so much about?"
The president's expression barely altered, and there was a brief silence as I stepped forward and grabbed hold of his hand. I held onto it for a good six seconds, looking down into his eyes — he was shorter that I had expected and I am six feet one inch — and forcing [my] message through them, this time putting everything I had into it.
Psychic phenomena are real. Open your mind. Put money into research. Six million dollars. Catch up with the Soviets.
And, he claims, he was sending this psychic message to Jimmy Carter at the specific request of a CIA agent, for whom he also spied in Mexico, strolling by the Russian Embassy and getting images of what might be inside the various rooms. The book, The Uri Geller Effect is a total hoot. Ah, summer reading.
ok im on a renewed search effort for that cassette music. i cant have lost the last existing copy! am i right in understanding that the midi version on line is not the version alex had which would have been recorded with period or modern acoustical instruments. is this getting warmer? here i think its avbl on amazon as used book but is the cassette still with the book?
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Emblem XVII from Michael Maier,Atalanta fugiens (Oppenheim: Hieronymus Gallerus, J. Theodorus de Bry, 1618). Borrowed from Hyle
"The historians who make alchemy their particular interest are sometimes looked on as eccentrics: their methodology may be impeccable (I mean, good archival research, sound iconographic analyses), but their choice of subject matter makes them suspect. In that respect art historians who are interested in alchemy become one further example of the oil-and-water problem of mixing alchemy with any ‘legitimate’ discipline." - excerpt & illustration from James Elkins' Four Ways of Measuring the Distance Between Alchemy and Contemporary Art (2003)
- sally mckay 9-24-2007 10:49 pm
alkamy, care thee? or care thee not?
- from a new novel by Neal Stephenson
majik!
- L.M. 9-25-2007 1:15 am
what would you do if you were paddling your little boat around the pond and four ascending filigreed balls of fire got in your way?
- sally mckay 9-25-2007 5:08 am
Isn't it more appropriate to ask what I would feel?
Just saying.
(majik!)
- L.M. 9-25-2007 5:18 am
you mean, like, would you change state?
by the way, this image came from the first link I got when I googled 'majik'.
- sally mckay 9-25-2007 6:40 am
We discussed Maier some years ago in this comment (and the links are still good!) I never did get the tape back from Bill. Several of my Christmas Cards are essentially alchemical devices. Adam McLean remains a good source for a non-obsucuritan explication of alchemical images.
- alex 9-25-2007 5:22 pm
majik!!!!!
- L.M. 9-25-2007 8:37 pm
youve an elephants memory a w.
- bill 9-25-2007 11:53 pm
I was thinking that too, thanks for the links Alex.
And, he claims, he was sending this psychic message to Jimmy Carter at the specific request of a CIA agent, for whom he also spied in Mexico, strolling by the Russian Embassy and getting images of what might be inside the various rooms. The book, The Uri Geller Effect is a total hoot. Ah, summer reading.L.M. everytime you say majik I think about the Uri Geller autobiography I read this summer. I quote:
- sally mckay 9-26-2007 1:23 am
ok im on a renewed search effort for that cassette music. i cant have lost the last existing copy! am i right in understanding that the midi version on line is not the version alex had which would have been recorded with period or modern acoustical instruments. is this getting warmer? here i think its avbl on amazon as used book but is the cassette still with the book?
- bill 10-29-2007 10:41 pm