{"product_id":"picturing-aura-isbn-9780262551748","title":"Picturing Aura","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe remarkable history of efforts to visualize the human aura and the lives of its pictures in religion, science, art, and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePicturing Aura\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book of its kind: an extended historical, anthropological, and philosophical study of modern efforts to visualize the hidden radiant force encompassing the living body known as our aura. This rich, interdisciplinary study by Jeremy Stolow chronicles the rise and global spread of modern instruments and techniques of picturing aura, from the late nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how its images are put to work in the diverse realms of psychical research, esotericism, art photography, popular culture, and the New Age alternative medical and spiritual marketplace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt their core, pictures of auras are boundary objects that operate simultaneously in multiple conceptual and practical realms, serving varying goals of making art, healing bodies, and exploring the cosmos. Drawing on extensive archival as well as field research, Stolow reconstructs a global history of this boundary-crossing enterprise through its evolving media technologies, markets, and cultural arenas. It is a story shaped through exchanges among professionals and amateurs, scientists and occultists, countercultural artists and entrepreneurs, metropolitans and hinterland figures. With more than 60 full-color illustrations, \u003ci\u003ePicturing Aura\u003c\/i\u003e brings to light a remarkable, entangled history of picture-making that challenges settled assumptions about religion, art, and science.Prologue: The Tangle\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Picturing Aura\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Elements of a Practice\u003cbr\u003e1 Science and Occultism: A Global Trading Zone\u003cbr\u003e2 Visualizing the Subtle Body\u003cbr\u003e3 Seeing and Seeing Beyond\u003cbr\u003e4 Family Resemblances: The Aura’s Image Bank\u003cbr\u003e5 Faith in Instruments\u003cbr\u003e6 The Aura and its Trace: Electricity as a Medium of Tactile Vision\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Migration, Trade, Entanglement\u003cbr\u003e7 The Hand of Narkiewicz-Jodko\u003cbr\u003e8 From Center to Periphery and Back Again\u003cbr\u003e9 Kirlian Photography, Cold War Parapsychology, and Groovy Science\u003cbr\u003e10 DIY Clairvoyance\u003cbr\u003e11 Heliographic Art\u003cbr\u003e12 Harmony, Protection, Healing\u003cbr\u003e13 Phantom Pictures\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: The Aura Debunked?\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex“Playful, sophisticated, and gorgeously illustrated, \u003ci\u003ePicturing Aura\u003c\/i\u003e guides us on a fascinating journey into new and ancient techniques for visualizing subtle energies.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Tresch, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Reason for the Darkness of the Night \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Romantic Machine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Beautifully illustrated, impeccably researched, and lucidly written, \u003ci\u003ePicturing Aura \u003c\/i\u003eis the single-most important resource on the subject.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Linda Dalrymple Henderson, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDuchamp in Context\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This tour de force sheds vital new light on visual practices that  link cosmic mysteries with the materiality of human bodies.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Gauri Viswanathan, author of \u003ci\u003eOutside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJeremy Stolow is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. Among his publications are the books \u003ci\u003eOrthodox by Design \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDeus in Machina\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301354328293,"sku":"NP9780262551748","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262551748.jpg?v=1767734772","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/picturing-aura-isbn-9780262551748","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}