Art & alchemy
By: edited by Jacob Wamberg.
Contributors: Wamberg, Jacob.
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum; Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Alchemy in art
Other titles: Art and alchemy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The philosophical nature of early Western alchemy: the formative period c.1150-1350 / Aksel Haaning; title: A stone and yet not a stone: alchemical themes in Northern Italian quattrocento landscape imagery / Jacob Wamberg; title: The material ethereal: photography and the alchemical ancestor / Laurie Dahlberg; title: Fluctuating identities: gender reversals in alchemical imagery / M.E. Warlick; title: Artists, alchemists and mannerists in courtly Prague / Sally Metzler; title: Guilt or gold: alchemy and prostitution in nineteenth-century Paris / Elizabeth K. Menon; title: The paracelsian magus in German art: Joseph Beuys and Rebecca Horn / Urszula Szulakowska; title: 'Alchemy in the amphitheatre': some considerations of the alchemical content of the engravings in Heinrich Khunrath's Amphitheatre of eternal wisdom (1609) / Peter Forshaw; title: Alchemy and its images in the Eddleman and Fisher collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation / Lloyd DeWitt and Lawrence M. Principe; title: Convention and change in seventeenth-century depictions of alchemists / Jane Russell Corbett.