The Art of Ectoplasm
Encounters with Winnipeg's Ghost Photographs
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-77284-037-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Art of Ectoplasm reflects on the history and legacy of T.G. and Lillian Hamilton's extraordinary collection of paranormal photographs, which have inspired and perplexed academics, historians, and artists since their creation a century ago, and offers a compelling look at a chapter in social history not entirely unlike our own.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Winnipeg
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
25 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 213 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
964 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77284-037-7 (9781772840377)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Serena Keshavjee grew up in Kenya and Toronto and now lives in Winnipeg, where she teaches modern art and architecture at the University of Winnipeg. Her academic research focuses on the intersection of art and science in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Content
- Introduction: Science and Sentiment in the Hamilton Family Fonds
- Chapter 1: Ghostly Pandemics: Speaking to the Dead in the Hamilton Family
- Chapter 2: Experiments and Experiences in Psy
- Chapterical Resear
- Chapter: Scientific Séances in Winnipeg
- Chapter 3: Seeing and Feeling, Science and Religion: Negotiating Binaries in Lillian Hamilton's Photographic Albums
- Chapter 4: The Cast of
- Chapteraracters Defending the T.G. Hamilton Family Psy
- Chapterical Resear
- Chapter Legacy
- Chapter 5: Life after Death: New Uses of the Hamilton Family Fonds
- Chapter 6: "Weird Winnipeg": Or How the Hamilton Family Fonds Helped to Make Winnipeg an Unlikely Centre of the Paranormal
- Chapter 7: "Mere Symbolic Ectoplasm": The Ectoplasmic Screen
- Chapter 8: Journey to the Spirit Realm
- Chapter 9: Embodying the Dead: The Science and Art of EctoplasmAppendix: Hamilton Family Publications
- Chapter 1: Ghostly Pandemics: Speaking to the Dead in the Hamilton Family
- Chapter 2: Experiments and Experiences in Psy
- Chapterical Resear
- Chapter: Scientific Séances in Winnipeg
- Chapter 3: Seeing and Feeling, Science and Religion: Negotiating Binaries in Lillian Hamilton's Photographic Albums
- Chapter 4: The Cast of
- Chapteraracters Defending the T.G. Hamilton Family Psy
- Chapterical Resear
- Chapter Legacy
- Chapter 5: Life after Death: New Uses of the Hamilton Family Fonds
- Chapter 6: "Weird Winnipeg": Or How the Hamilton Family Fonds Helped to Make Winnipeg an Unlikely Centre of the Paranormal
- Chapter 7: "Mere Symbolic Ectoplasm": The Ectoplasmic Screen
- Chapter 8: Journey to the Spirit Realm
- Chapter 9: Embodying the Dead: The Science and Art of EctoplasmAppendix: Hamilton Family Publications