The Bookplate Designs Of Austin Osman Spare
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The Bookplate Designs Of Austin Osman Spare
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Author : Robert Ansell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Bookplate Designs Of Austin Osman Spare written by Robert Ansell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Bookplate designers categories.
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.
Stealing Fire From Heaven
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Author : Nevill Drury
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-02
Stealing Fire From Heaven written by Nevill Drury and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-02 with Religion categories.
The Western magical traditions are currently undergoing an international resurgence. In Stealing Fire from Heaven, Nevill Drury offers an overview of the modern occult revival and seeks to explain this growing interest in ancient magical belief systems. Gnosticism and the Hermetica, the medieval Kabbalah, Tarot and Alchemy, and more recently, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, collectively laid the basis for the modern magical revival, which first began to gather momentum in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. Western magic has since become increasingly eclectic, drawing on such diverse sources as classical Greco-Roman mythology, Celtic cosmology, Kundalini yoga and Tantra, shamanism, chaos theory, and the various spiritual traditions associated in many different cultures with the Universal Goddess. Drury traces the rise of various forms of magical belief and practice, from the influential Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn to the emergence of Wicca and Goddess worship as expressions of contemporary feminine spirituality. He also explores Chaos Magick and the occult practices of the so-called Left-Hand Path, as well as twenty-first-century magical forays into cyberspace. He believes that the rise of modern Western magic stems essentially from the quest for personal spiritual transformation and direct experience of the sacred--a quest which the trance occultist and visionary artist Austin Osman Spare once referred to as "stealing fire from heaven." Considered in this light, Drury argues, modern Western magic can be regarded as a form of alternative spirituality in which the practitioners seek direct engagement with the mythic realm.
Bookplate Designs
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Author : Carol Belanger Grafton
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2008-08-01
Bookplate Designs written by Carol Belanger Grafton and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-01 with Design categories.
This unique homage to bookplate art illuminates over 320 of the craft's finest examples. A breathtaking variety of black-and-white designs embrace a multitude of styles: woodcuts, engravings, lithographs, typography, and more.
The Bookplate Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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Year Book Of The American Society Of Bookplate Collectors And Designers
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Author : American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Year Book Of The American Society Of Bookplate Collectors And Designers written by American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Bookplates categories.
The Art Of The Bookplate
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Author : James P. Keenan
language : en
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Release Date : 2003
The Art Of The Bookplate written by James P. Keenan and has been published by Sterling Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.
The world is full of people who love books. People who not only love to read, but who love to possess and collect books. Since the fifteenth century truly devoted collectors have commissioned their own bookplates, known also as ex libris. Some are straightforward ? a simple label bearing the owner?s name. Others are impressive works of art in miniature. Whether plan or fancy, book plates give an owner a special sense of proud proprietorship. Even more important, they assure that if a cherished book is lent, it has a decent chance of being returned. They are an indulgence of the rich and famous, certainly. And, ?The art of the Bookplate? includes many owned by prominent people such as George Washington, Charlie Chaplin, John F. Kennedy, Joan Crawford J.P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Grace Allen, Otto Bismarck, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Houdini, Sigmund Freud, Charles Dickens, and Anita Loos. But other bookplate patrons are unknown to us, like Mabel Bishop, whose charming ex libris shows a young woman tending her garden, or Lucius Fisher, whose bookplate, naturally enough, features a fish. In this delightful book James P. Keenan, Director of the American Society of bookplate collectors & Designers, shares many of his favorite bookplates. He explains the history behind each, and discusses the artists ? some as famous as Rockwell Kent and Claes Oldenburg, others as unknown or not ex libris owners are passionate about keeping their book collections intact. As one very old bookplate proclaims, ?Steal not this book for fear of shame. For here you see the owner?s name.? The Art of the Bookplate is a book to be treasured and, of course, kept in your possession. --
Book Plate Designs
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
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Rockwell Kent
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Author : Don E. Roberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Rockwell Kent written by Don E. Roberts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.
This landmark book features 200 privately commissioned and rarely seen bookplates from a signature American artist, with information about the origin and design of each. 120 illustrations.
Bibliographic Guide To Art And Architecture
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Author : New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Bibliographic Guide To Art And Architecture written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Architecture categories.