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Birthdate: 1940-03-07
Date of death: 2019-01-28
Gender: female
Nationality: USA (birth)
UK
Birthplace: Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Place of death: London, England, UK
Places of residence: Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Education: Smith College
Occupations: artist

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Dream Machines by Susan Hiller

Dream Machines takes up the theme of the transformative power of art, presenting works that propose the possibility of shifting the viewer's consciousness to induce reverie, hallucination, or transcendence. International and cross-generational, this book includes daily dream drawings, dream paintings, and real-life "dream machines," as well as photography, sound, video, and installation work that engage with mediumship and trance, intoxication, hypnosis, and out-of-body experience. Selected by the artist Susan Hiller and operating in the territory covered by her own work, Dream Machines is the latest in a series of exhibitions curated by distinguished artists.… (more)

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petervanbeveren | Jan 1, 2023 |

Dreams: Visions of the Night (Art and Imagination) by David Coxhead

Dreams: Visions of the Night is a good starting point for getting a little more in depth into dream theory. It has introductions to the different traditions of belief of dreams (Greek, Christian, Psychoanalytic), and a lot of interesting pictures of dream paraphernalia from different traditions.

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renardkitsune | Nov 6, 2018 |

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