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It reveals exactly why his horrific scenes are so convincing, immediate, and yet inscrutable.' - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA reconstruction of Goya's so-called 'Witches and Old Women' album\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRavaged by a debilitating illness and all-but completely deaf, \u003cspan\u003eFrancisco de Goya (1746-1828)\u003c\/span\u003e was a changed artist in middle age. While he continued as a court painter to the Spanish crown, he worked privately on eight albums of some 600 brush and ink drawings. The drawings they contained – populated with nightmarish figures, superstitious tales and horrific deaths – were never intended to be seen beyond a small circle of friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished to accompany the Courtauld's 2015 exhibition, this publication brings \u003cspan\u003etogether, for the first time, all the existing pages \u003c\/span\u003efrom one of those eight albums - the Witches and Old Women album. 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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.  While science seeks answers, artists illuminate the unknown through intuition, imagination and vision, creating visual records of the esoteric, the uncanny and the unexplainable.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Art of the Unknown brings together nearly 200 artworks that delve into the limits of perception and belief, for example:  William Blake’s celestial visions Léon Spilliaert's mysterious paintings Penny Slinger's spectral photographs Daniel Martin Diaz’s symbolic diagrams Uniting historical artists with contemporary creators who continue to push at the boundaries of reality, this book asks: what worlds exist alongside our own – and how do artists give form to what can’t be seen?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe Art of the Unknown is an enthralling journey for anyone fascinated by mystery and the esoteric, inviting you to look again at the forces that persist just beyond the threshold of ordinary reality, and to discover how artists have long attempted to make the invisible visible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"redstrong\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eS. 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