Occulture
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Explores the role of magic and the occult in art and culture from ancient times to today.
Carl Abrahamsson Boeken
Carl Abrahamsson is een Zweedse schrijver die diep is ondergedompeld in het rijk van 'occuculture', en onderzoekt hoe occultisme en verborgen ideeën verweven zijn met de bredere cultuur in literatuur, film, muziek en kunst. Zijn werk omvat zowel fictie als journalistiek, en als redacteur en uitgever wijdt hij zich aan uitgebreid magisch-antropologisch onderzoek. Abrahamssons onderscheidende aanpak ontrafelt de onzichtbare draden die esoterische concepten verbinden met de mainstream samenleving, en biedt lezers een provocerend perspectief op de verborgen dimensies van onze beschaving.
Outsider Inpatient: Reflections on Art as Therapy
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Outsider Inpatient is an anthology of perspectives about the value of art and creativity within psychiatric environments. It specifically shines the light on experiences at Lillhagen Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, where inpatients were allowed to paint and decorate the entire walls of long corridors in the basements of the hospital. Also included are valuable thoughts about creativity in general from clinicians, art historians, psychoanalysts, and artists. What constitutes “outsider” art? How can creativity be used in the treatment of (in)patients? Why do certain artists create the way they do, and how does it affect them? Outsider Inpatient is an informative study about a topic that has created as much controversy and criticism as it has support and adherents, in environments as diverse as clinical psychiatry and psychology, art theory, social sciences, psychoanalysis and philosophy. This book has been produced in cooperation with the Center for Critical Heritage Studies and the University of Gothenburg, and contains texts by Elisabeth Punzi, Per Magnus Johansson, Johannes Nordholm, Inez Edström, Christian Munthe, Carl Abrahamsson, Vanessa Sinclair, and Val Denham.Trapart Books 2021, 6 x 9” paperback, 100 pages, illustrated.
Sharing his more than 30 years of experiences in the fields of occulture and magical anthropology, Carl Abrahamsson explores ancient and modern magical history to reveal the source magic that connects us all, past and present.