Superstition : the magic of everyday life.

Date:
[2001]
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Description

Exhibition catalogue designed in the style of an oversized tarot deck, with no decernable order (except for the first and last cards).

Publication/Creation

Norwich : Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, [2001]

Physical description

10 cards : colour illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes

"'Superstition' is curated by the MA Museology students at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia"--From Introduction.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Superstition: the Magic of Everyday Life" held at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, 30 May - 24 June 2001.

Contents

Titles on cards (put in order by cataloguer): Introduction -- Superstition as propaganda -- Contemporary superstition -- Luck & protection of ourselves -- Luck & protection of property -- Luck & protection on journeys -- Rites of passage -- Divination -- Personification of the unknown -- Acknowledgments.

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ISBN

  • 0946009392
  • 9780946009398