Series: Art in the Margins

This beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy, and the unreal. Artists have explored imaginary worlds and fantastical creatures for centuries, expressing the unreal and impossible, the mystical and mythical, via the medium of paint. But what draws them to the imaginary, the uncharted, and the unknown? Is it...

A visual feast of eclectic artwork informed and inspired by spiritual beliefs, magical techniques, mythology, and otherworldly experiences. Mystic and occult practices date back centuries, but why do we still chase the esoteric? Over the past two hundred years, image-makers have been drawn to these unknown spheres and have created curious artworks that transcend time and place - but what...

Throughout history, artists have been obsessed with darkness—creating works that haunt and horrify, mesmerise and delight, and play on our innermost fears. Gentileschi took revenge with paint in Judith Slaying Holofernes while Bosch depicted fearful visions of Hell that still beguile. Victorian Britain became strangely obsessed with the dead, and in Norway, Munch explored anxiety and fear in one of...

What lurks at the edges of human perception? Across time and cultures, artists have found themselves drawn to document encounters with forces and phenomena that defy comprehension—from ghostly manifestations and cosmic energies to twilight realms and parallel dimensions. In studios and sacred spaces, they've attempted to capture evidence of mysterious powers, alternative worlds, and the shadows that lurk just beyond...