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William Mortensen "WITCHES"

Exhibition catalog of William Mortensen "WITCHES" at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland Ohio 2019. Contributors include Idlu Lili Regulus with quotes from William Mortensen. “It is probably true that pictorial art cannot touch so directly the springs of fear as can either the literary art or the cinema. Fear—and the answering thrill of the scalp—is stirred much more subtly, and at the same time much more directly, through the medium of the more primitive sense impressions, touch and smell. Those familiar with the ghost stories of Montague James can testify to this fact. In one memorable story, a man sitting alone in a lamp-lit room senses something stirring beside his chair. Without looking, he puts his hand down; and a soft and hairy mass rises against it. Consider the utter impossibility of adequately rendering this moment in pictorial terms. You can represent the hairy mass, you can represent the hand, you can represent the horrified face of the man; but nothing can represent the searing horror conveyed by the suggested tactual sensation. Fear also can be rendered in terms of the cinema medium. Here the purely pictorial element receives much assistance from

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