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  Two more paintings by Hendrik Heerschop
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-22-2023, 01:03 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Heerschop

Both entitled The Alchemist and his Assistant.

   

   

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  Gallery Guide: The Age of Alchemy
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-22-2023, 12:56 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

28 images from the Gallery of the Science History Institute with brief commentaries.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/wp-conten...lchemy.pdf

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  Journal of the Alchemical Society 1913-1915
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-22-2023, 12:50 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - Replies (1)

At Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/search?query=%22jour...hemical%22

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  Video: Alchemical Worlds
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-22-2023, 12:46 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

"Alchemical Worlds: Reflections connects undeciphered ancient alchemical mirroring and symmetry compositions with climate science research on coral and trees. The repeat pattern on Ahimsa or peace silk features the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) and brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis) – the oldest known living species on earth, close to 5,000 years. These ‘bioarchivists’ are significant non-human living entities that hold long-term climate data beyond human records."

https://australiandesigncentre.com/objec...flections/

with embedded video.



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  Gavin Shri Amneon: Seven Stages of the Alchemical Process
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-22-2023, 12:40 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Complete work at:

https://bluethumb.com.au/gavin-shri-amne...al-process



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  Johannes Weiland: Alchemist with a scale
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-21-2023, 10:15 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Johannes Weiland (* 23 November 1856 in Vlaardingen; † 13 November 1909 in Rotterdam) was a Dutch genre painter, watercolourist and draughtsman.



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  Alchemical catoptrics
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-21-2023, 09:59 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Richard Ashrowan.

Thesis. Full text.

"The transformation of matter and the reflection of light are at the heart of filmmaking and moving image practice, exemplified by Stan Brakhage’s assertion that “matter is still light. Light held in a bind.” Catoptrics is the use of optical devices, mirrors, crystals and lenses in the processes of focussing and directing light. Alchemy has a two thousand year history, commonly misunderstood as a form erroneous proto-chemistry in which people sought the Philosopher’s Stone to transmute base metals into gold. Alchemical catoptrics is the place where the disciplines of alchemy and catoptrics meet, encompassing an enquiry into the fundamental properties of matter and the possibilities for its transformation, bound up in range of pre-scientific belief systems and philosophies of light, matter and cosmogenesis."

https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/31017

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  An Eco-Alchemical Vision: Hermetic Writing in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-21-2023, 09:57 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

"An Eco-Alchemical Vision: Hermetic Writing in Twentieth-Century British Literature” examines the intersection of alchemical thinking with contemporary green discourses. This project focuses on four writers from the last century: W. B. Yeats, Charles Williams, Lindsay Clarke, and Patrick Harpur. It considers a wide selection of their writing across literary genres, including the novel, the short story, the essay and poetry. While each of the texts under consideration figures the relationship between the human and the nonhuman world in different ways, reading them alongside one another reveals a shared preoccupation with the status of the material world. For these writers, the alchemical tradition offers a way of both speaking and thinking about physical phenomena that affirms our complex entanglement with materiality. Like the medieval and Renaissance alchemists, all four writers seek to disrupt the rigidity of the boundaries often erected between what dominant modes of thinking in the Western philosophic tradition have categorized as organic and inorganic."

Laura Van Dyke

Thesis, full text.

https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/39469

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  Representations of gender in seventeenth-century Dutch alchemical paint
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-21-2023, 09:54 PM - Forum: Articles on alchemy - No Replies

Representations of gender in seventeenth-century Netherlandish alchemical genre painting

O'Mahoney, Elizabeth (2005), PhD thesis, University of York.


Full text.

https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10994/

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  Chris Dunn: The Alchemist
Posted by: Paul Ferguson - 10-21-2023, 02:27 PM - Forum: Alchemical symbolism and imagery - No Replies

Contemporary artist and illustrator.



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