Technicians of Ecstasy: Shamanism and the Modern Artist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780962618444)

This book grew, in part, out of an undergraduate course Dr. Levy taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. Finding that students were still subscribing to the 19th-century bohemian myth that to have a vision, one had to, in the words of Rimbaud, "systematically derange" one's senses, he attempted to expose them to an alternative myth that is more positive -- a myth rooted in the grounded practice of shamanic techniques.

Author: Mark Levy
ISBN-10: 0962618446
ISBN-13: 9780962618444
Publisher: Bramble Books
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.50w x 0.72d