Merlin Cox

Merlin Cox is a Ph.D. candidate at the Warburg Institute, funded by an AHRC doctoral award, and a veteran freelance editor of trade and academic books. His thesis investigates the renaissance of Iamblichean theurgy in the philosophies of Marsilio Ficino and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. He is a series editor of the Black Mirror Research Network on esoteric art, and co-edited and co-translated the Compendium rarissimum totius artis magicae (Touch Me Not, 2017). He holds an MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300–1650 from the Warburg Institute.

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Fulgur Press, Merlin Cox, Hereward Tilton, Touch Me Not, Art

Touch Me Not

Fulgur Press, Merlin Cox, Hereward Tilton, Touch Me Not, Art

Touch Me Not is an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts, completed c.1795. Unique and otherworldly, it evokes a realm of visceral dark magic.

Fulgur Press, Merlin Cox, Hereward Tilton, Touch Me Not, Art

Fulgur Press, Judith Noble, Merlin Cox, Daniel Zamani, Gražina Subelytė, Christiane Gruber, Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, D. Lyle Dechant, Deanna Petherbridge, Antoine Faivre, Nikola Piperkov, M. E. Warlick, Nathan J. Timpano, Leo Ruickbie, Victoria Ferentinou

Visions of Enchantment

Fulgur Press, Judith Noble, Merlin Cox, Daniel Zamani, Gražina Subelytė, Christiane Gruber, Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, D. Lyle Dechant, Deanna Petherbridge, Antoine Faivre, Nikola Piperkov, M. E. Warlick, Nathan J. Timpano, Leo Ruickbie, Victoria Ferentinou

Since Antiquity, the idea of the artist as a magician, trickster and powerful creator of new realities has established itself as a fertile idea in the discussion of image-making. The conjuring of illusions, the inherent link between the material and the spiritual and the wish to make the invisible visible are all part of this wider discourse.