Visualizing the Supernatural
by Eva Reifert
- Author(s)
- Eva Reifert
- Publication, year
- Basel : Kunstmuseum Basel ; Christoph Merian Verlag, 2025
- Scope
- 140 Pages, illustrated, 29,5 cm.
- ISBN
- 978-3-03969-050-3
Catalogue accompanying the similar titled, extensive exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel: September 20, 2025, to March 8, 2026, the first comprehensive examination of ghosts in art, a humorous and profound journey through literature, psychology, cultural history, and art history. The publication traces the diverse traces that ghosts have left in our visual culture. It focuses on the history of ghost representation and research in Europe and the US since the 19th century. Since then, artists in all media have explored the ghostly realm between death and life, horror and humor, the visible and the invisible. In the art of recent decades, ghosts often appear as metaphors for all that is violent and repressed that haunts us. With works by William Blake, Nicole Eisenman, Katharina Fritsch, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Ryan Gander, Mike Kelley, Paul Klee, René Magritte, Meret Oppenheim, Tony Oursler, Cornelia Parker, Thomas Schütte, Rachel Witheread, and many others.
- Person as subject
- William Blake, Nicole Eisenman, Katharina Fritsch, Ryan Gander, Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, Thomas Schütte, Rachel Witheread
- Keywords
- spiritualiteit / spirituality
- Location
- Cabinet 32 - 1: Attempts to Read the World (Differently)
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