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Austin Osman Spare Revised Edition
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Author : Phil Baker
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-11-21
Austin Osman Spare Revised Edition written by Phil Baker and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A revised edition of Phil Baker’s critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare. London has harbored many curious characters, but few more curious than the artist and visionary Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956). A controversial enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world, the young Spare was hailed as a genius and a new Aubrey Beardsley, while George Bernard Shaw reportedly said “Spare’s medicine is too strong for the average man.” But Spare was never made for worldly success and he went underground, falling out of the gallery system to live in poverty and obscurity south of the river. Absorbed in occultism and sorcery, voyaging into inner dimensions, and surrounding himself with cats and familiar spirits, he continued to produce extraordinary art while developing a magical philosophy of pleasure, obsession, and the subjective nature of reality. Today Spare is both forgotten and famous, a cult figure whose modest life has been much mythologized since his death. This groundbreaking biographical study offers wide-ranging insights into Spare’s art, mind and world, reconnecting him with the art history that ignored him and exploring his parallel London; a bygone place of pub pianists, wealthy alchemists, and monstrous owls. This richly readable and illuminating biography takes us deep into the strange inner world that this most enigmatic of artists inhabited, shedding new light while allowing just a few shadowy corners to flourish unspoiled. Revised, updated, and with a new afterword by the author, this is the definitive edition of Phil Baker’s critically lauded Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist.
Austin Osman Spare
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Author : Phil Baker
language : en
Publisher: Austin Osman Spare
Release Date : 2012
Austin Osman Spare written by Phil Baker and has been published by Austin Osman Spare this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Painters categories.
Austin Spare was described as the greatest draughtsman in England and was the enfant terrible of the Edwardian art scene but by the time of his death he was living in squalor and all but forgotten. This engaging biography charts the rise and fall of British art's darkest star, who was facinated by mysticism and spirtualism and practised automatic drawing before the Surrealists and developed a unique system of magic. By the 1930s Spare had retreated from fashionable society, living in poverty and obscurity but he never stopped working, only now is his work seen.
Austin Osman Spare
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Author : Austin Osman Spare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Austin Osman Spare written by Austin Osman Spare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
The Writings Of Austin Osman Spare
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Author : Austin Osman Spare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-01-04
The Writings Of Austin Osman Spare written by Austin Osman Spare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-04 with History categories.
This wonderful book contains four of the most popular writings of Austin Asman Spare, including Automatic Drawings, Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure, and The Focus of Life
Lost Envoy Revised And Updated Edition
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Author : Jonathan Allen
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-02-06
Lost Envoy Revised And Updated Edition written by Jonathan Allen and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Art categories.
The Book Of Pleasure
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Author : Austin Osman Spare
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-02
The Book Of Pleasure written by Austin Osman Spare and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02 with Occultism categories.
The Book of Pleasure could be regarded as the central text among Austin Osman Spare's writings. It covers both mystical and magical aspects of Spare's ideas; as the modern ideas on sigils (as now have become popular in chaos magic) and Spare's special theory on incarnation are for the first time introduced in this book.There are some chapters in The Book of Pleasure that Spare has referred to within the text, but are omitted. It seems that they were destroyed during World War II
Austin Osman Spare
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Author : Phil Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Austin Osman Spare written by Phil Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art categories.
Austin Osman Spare is the definitive biography of the controversial occultist and artist, an enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world whose work was both hailed as genius and decried as immoral decadence. As George Bernard Shaw reportedly said, "Spare's medicine is too strong for the average man." Trained as a draughtsman, Spare enjoyed early acclaim when, at the age of seventeen, his work was shown at the Royal Academy in London. But his star soon declined; Spare went underground, falling out of the gallery system to live in poverty and obscurity. After a brief association with Aleister Crowley, he became absorbed in occultism and sorcery, voyaging into inner dimensions, while developing his own magical philosophy of pleasure, obsession, and the subjective nature of reality. All the while, Spare continued to produce extraordinary art, and held his exhibitions outside of the conventional art world, in London pubs. Today Spare is both forgotten and famous, a cult figure whose modest life has been much mythologised since his death; the world's largest Spare collection is held by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Biographer Phil Baker separates fact from myth, providing wide-ranging insights into Spare's art and mind, reconnecting him with the art community that ignored him and exploring the rich tapestry of the culture that surrounded him, interweaving the birth of psychoanalysis, the historiography of the occult, and the British class system. This richly readable and illuminating biography, containing 50 black and white and 8 color photographs of Spare's art, takes us deep into the strange inner world of this enigmatic artist.
Lost Envoy
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Author : Jonathan Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Lost Envoy written by Jonathan Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Occultism categories.
In the Spring of 2013 a 79-card, hand-painted tarot deck created c.1906 by the mystic and artist Austin Osman Spare, was identified within the collections of The Magic Circle Museum in London. Austin Spare's life-long interest in cartomancy is well documented, yet very few of his own fortune-telling cards were thought to have survived. This compelling new example of the artist's early work demonstrates his precocious involvement with the currents that shaped the British Occult Revival at the beginning of 20th century, and his interactions with some of the period's lesser-known protagonists. Magic Circle Museum curator and artist Jonathan Allen immediately recognised that Spare's cards were not only art-historically significant, but also entirely unknown outside of The Magic Circle's collections, and set about tracing the deck's provenance, its place in the artist's oeuvre and within the wider histories of cartomancy. Lost Envoy reproduces Austin Spare's tarot deck in its entirety for the first time, alongside new written and visual contributions from Jonathan Allen, Phil Baker, Helen Farley, Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, Sally O'Reilly and Gavin Semple. The book is designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio, with a cover incorporating the vibrant back colours of Spare's cards, a period binding common to many of the volumes found in The Magic Circle library and a gold deboss of the artist's autographic 'bird-head' motif, as discovered within the deck itself. The numbered and debossed special edition contains several fold-out sections showing conspicuous alignment between cards.--Publisher.
The Focus Of Life
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Author : Austin Osman Spare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-30
The Focus Of Life written by Austin Osman Spare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-30 with categories.
A masterwork of the renowned artist and magician Austin Osman Spare. This New Edition features all the original illustrations, accurate paragraph division, and text formatting as compared with the original printing. The Focus of Life is one of Spare's greatest and most accessible works.
The Pocket Austin Osman Spare
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Author : Austin Osman Spare
language : en
Publisher: Trident Business Partners
Release Date : 2020-01-22
The Pocket Austin Osman Spare written by Austin Osman Spare and has been published by Trident Business Partners this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-22 with Art categories.
Working on the cutting edge of both magic and art, Austin Osman Spare developed a unique synthesis of older ritual magic systems with post-modern, erotic, and surrealist themes. His theory of magic eschews complex formula and ritual to favor creativity, spontaneity, and ecstasy, embracing artistic expression and alternative sexualities. Collected here are some of Spare's most important works. Though dense and esoteric, these texts bear repeated study by the serious occultist, for they speak to the human drives that make real magic possible.