#60 - Susan L. Aberth, Occult Art Doyenne
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Susan L. Aberth is the Edith C. Blum Professor of the Art History and Visual Culture Program at Bard College, and a world-renowned expert on occult art and surrealism. Her 2004 book, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Lund Humphries) helped introduce Carrington’s magical work to the masses. She also recently co-authored The Tarot of Leonora Carrington (Fulgur Press, 2020) with Mexican curator Tere Arcq, which is an analysis of Carrington’s tarot paintings and original major arcana deck.
Susan has also contributed to Surrealism and Magic, Guggenheim Venice (2021); Not Without My Ghosts (2020, Traveling exhibition in England); Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist (Phoenix Art Museum, 2019), Juanita Guccione: Otherwhere (Napa Valley Museum, 2019), Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvelous (Routledge Press, 2018), Leonora Carrington: Cuentos Magicos (Museo de Arte Moderno & INBA, Mexico City, 2018), Unpacking: The Marciano Collection (Delmonico Books, Prestel, 2017), and Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde (Manchester University Press, 2017), as well as to Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric Studies, Black Mirror, and Journal of Surrealism and the Americas. She received her B.A. from UCLA, M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
On this episode, Susan discusses her groundbreaking scholarship on Leonora Carrington’s occult art oeuvre, the newly discovered Carrington Tarot, and how bewitching women change the world.
Pam also speaks about gratitude magic, and answers a listener question about how to give thanks for a priceless gift.
Our sponsors for this episode are Luna Lux Botanicals, BetterHelp, Clarissa Eck Ceramics, Mithras Candle, Zouz Incense
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| 2:07.0 | Thank you, Luna Lux. The world is filled with bewitching people and you might be one too. |
| 2:18.0 | Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, magic is real and reality is stranger than dreams. I'm Pam Grossman, and this is the witch wave. When the sun you can I'll be bright. |
| 2:37.0 | Oh, suddenly shakes in the night a mountain with me to my knees to my knees to my face |
| 2:52.0 | a rooted in. Hello and welcome to the witch wave. |
| 3:05.0 | Well, it's Thanksgiving week and believe me I know how complicated this holiday is for those of us who live in the US and I'm speaking |
| 3:15.6 | both from an individual perspective and a national perspective. Personally I am not seeing any family this year out of an abundance of caution since COVID cases are on the rise again, |
| 3:32.0 | and I haven't seen my sweet wonderful parents who live in |
| 3:36.4 | Arizona since February. We're missing each other like crazy but we've chosen not to visit each other because we care |
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