Art and Alchemy: A Deep and Slow Daydream about Bachelard

This volume makes Gaston Bachelard’s thought accessible to the public by examining it in terms of the juncture between nature and art and between nature and civilization. Written in lyrical prose that avoids abstruse concepts and professional jargon as much as possible, this book reestablishes the significance of alchemy and Bachelard today, thus providing readers with a practical understanding of the material imagination in communication with primal nature.