Picturing Aura | A Visual Biography

Jeremy Stolow

ISBN 10: 0262551748 / ISBN 13: 9780262551748

Published by MIT Press Ltd, 2025

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Picturing Aura | A Visual Biography | Jeremy Stolow | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2025 | MIT Press Ltd | EAN 9780262551748 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Picturing Aura | A Visual Biography
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262551748
• ISBN 13: 9780262551748
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 232W x 181H x 20D millimeters 232 millimeters width by 181 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 806 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The remarkable history of efforts to visualize the human aura and the lives of its pictures in religion, science, art, and culture.

Picturing Aura 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.

At 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, Picturing Aura brings to light a remarkable, entangled history of picture-making that challenges settled assumptions about religion, art, and science.

About the Author

Jeremy Stolow is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. Among his publications are the books Orthodox by Design and Deus in Machina.