A new high quality paperback edition, reproducing in its entirety the English mystic and artist's seventy-nine-card, hand-painted tarot deck alongside contemporary essays and archival material. A new high quality paperback edition of
Lost Envoy: the Tarot Deck Of Austin Osman Spare, reproducing in its entirety this seventy-nine-card, hand-painted tarot deck created c.1906 by the English mystic and artist, alongside contemporary essays and archival material.
Austin Spare's lifelong 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 the twentieth century, and his interactions with some of the period's artistic and political protagonists including Aleister Crowley, Arthur Ivey, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Pamela Colman Smith.
Magic Circle Museum curator and artist Jonathan Allen set about tracing the deck's provenance, its place in the artist's oeuvre, and within the wider histories of cartomancy, in so doing contributing an unexpected counter narrative to the history of popular Tarot in the early twentieth century.
Lost Envoy reproduces Austin Spare's tarot deck in its entirety, alongside written and visual contributions from Jonathan Allen, Phil Baker, John Choma, Helen Farley, Alan Moore, Mark Pilkington, Kevin O'Neill, Sally O'Reilly and Gavin Semple. This revised second edition contains a substantial amount of new material, including the discovery of a major, hitherto unknown, source of inspiration for Spare's deck.
一本全新的高品質平裝版書籍，完整重現了英國神秘主義者和藝術家奧斯曼·斯貝爾（Austin Osman Spare）的79張手繪塔羅牌，並附有當代論文和檔案資料。
《失落的使者：奧斯曼·斯貝爾的塔羅牌》是一本全新的高品質平裝版書籍，完整重現了這套由英國神秘主義者和藝術家於1906年創作的79張手繪塔羅牌，並附有當代論文和檔案資料。斯貝爾對卡片占卜的長期興趣有充分的記錄，但他自己的占卜牌很少被認為保存下來。這套藝術家早期作品的引人入勝的新例子展示了他對塑造20世紀初英國神秘主義復興的潮流的早熟參與，以及他與當時的藝術和政治主角，包括艾利斯特·克勞利（Aleister Crowley）、亞瑟·艾維（Arthur Ivey）、希爾維亞·潘克赫斯特（Sylvia Pankhurst）和帕梅拉·科爾曼·史密斯（Pamela Colman Smith）的互動。
魔法圈博物館館長和藝術家喬納森·艾倫（Jonathan Allen）致力於追蹤這套牌的來源、它在藝術家作品中的地位，以及在卡片占卜的更廣泛歷史中的位置，從而為20世紀初期流行塔羅牌的歷史提供了一個意想不到的反叙事。《失落的使者》完整重現了奧斯曼·斯貝爾的塔羅牌，並附有喬納森·艾倫、菲爾·貝克（Phil Baker）、約翰·喬瑪（John Choma）、海倫·法利（Helen Farley）、艾倫·摩爾（Alan Moore）、馬克·皮爾金頓（Mark Pilkington）、凱文·奧尼爾（Kevin O'Neill）、莎莉·奧雷利（Sally O'Reilly）和加文·森普爾（Gavin Semple）的文字和視覺貢獻。這個修訂的第二版包含了大量的新資料，包括發現了斯貝爾塔羅牌的一個重要且迄今未知的靈感來源。
Jonathan Allen (UK, 1966) is a London-based artist, writer and educator whose work has featured in many exhibitions and publications in the UK and internationally since the early 1990s. He is best known for his work addressing the cultural histories of enchantment and for his performance alter ego, the faux gospel magician Tommy Angel. Allen has taught widely in UK art schools as well as regularly contributing to specialist international lecture programs. He is a curator at London's Magic Circle Museum, and in 2009 initiated and co-curated the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition Magic Show. As a frequent contributor to the New York-based art & culture journal Cabinet he has written on subjects as diverse as arboreal camouflage, asymmetric town twinning, and the stage history of shadows.
