Talking 'The Mirror of Magic' and Kurt Seligmann | Daniel Mack

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This week we speak with artist, teacher and maker, Daniel Mack. Daniel is also the chairman of the Seligmann Center Committee in upstate New York and joins us to talk about the life and work of the surrealist painter, Kurt Seligmann -in particular his book, The Mirror of Magic, first published in the late forties.

In this wide ranging discussion, we talk art, irrationality, the impact of the Unconscious on the flow of history, early experiments in creative homesteading and the remarkable Seligmann himself.

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0:00.0	Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.
0:12.0	All the broken and shunned creatures.
0:17.7	Someone's got to care for them.
0:20.0	Who shall it be if not us? Yes.
0:26.0	Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from
0:45.3	43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.
0:49.1	My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.
0:51.9	This week we welcome to the show Artist, Maker and Teacher Daniel Mack.
0:56.0	Daniel joins us today to talk about a book he in fact did not write, which is The Mirror of Magic by Kurt Seligman.
1:02.0	But he is the Chairman of the Seligman
1:04.5	Center committee and we are unfortunately a few decades late to speak to the
1:08.5	Surrealist painter and independent historian of Magic Kurt himself. So we talk art surrealism, magic, little bit of
1:16.3	farming, irrationality as well as the remarkable Seligman himself. Good stuff.
1:22.1	Let's do it.
1:24.0	Daniel, thank you very much for your time.
1:26.0	Oh, it's nice to be with you.
1:28.0	Yeah, yeah, wonderful.
1:29.0	So we have a traditional first question for first-time guests on the show and in this case I'm going to amend it slightly.
1:37.0	So the traditional first question amended slightly Daniel is, was Kurt Seligman a weird kid?
1:47.0	No I think he was probably a pretty normal child.
1:55.0	Art-oriented, loved his family.
2:00.0	His father was not so interested in him becoming an artist that wasn't really a way to make a living
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