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Hardback. Etat : New. "Looking at your pictures is like looking through butterfly wings." -Jimi Hendrix Between 1968 and 1971, in a loft on New York's Jefferson Street, the poet, photographer and filmmaker Ira Cohen created some of the most mythic images of the late 1960s. Inspired by his friends Jack Smith and Bill Devore, Cohen's initial experiments with black light developed into an experimental ritual space he termed the Mylar Chamber--a simple room of hinged boards hung with reflective Mylar film. Through his extended network, and with the support of artist and set designer Robert LaVigne, Cohen invited visitors to play another self within this small theater, among them Jimi Hendrix, William Burroughs, Vali Myers, Jack Smith, Angus MacLise, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lionel Ziprin, Ching Ho Cheng, Petra Vogt, Charles Ludlam, John McLaughlin and the rock group Spirit. In December 1969, in a summary of the past decade, Life magazine declared that "few came as close to explaining the euphoric distortions of hallucinogenics" as Cohen through his Mylar Chamber photographs, but the full story draws upon much deeper ideas surrounding identity and the power of the image. This is the first book to explore Cohen's iconic Mylar Chamber photographs. Published on the 50th anniversary of the Life magazine feature, and with several gatefolds, it includes more than 70 images from this intensely creative period, each digitally restored from the original negatives by Cohen's friend and collaborator, Ira Landgarten. It also includes an interview with Cohen, excerpts from his poetry, critical writing from Allan Graubard and Ian MacFadyen and further reflections from Timothy Baum, Alice Farley and Thurston Moore. Ira Cohen was born in the Bronx in 1935. A countercultural renaissance man, Cohen made films, photographs and poetry, edited the magazine Gnaoua and authored The Hashish Cookbook. Cohen became well known for his 1968 movie using the Mylar technique, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda, soundtracked by Angus MacLise, the original drummer of the Velvet Underground. In 2008 Nina Zivancevic, writing in NY Arts magazine, described Cohen's life as "a sort of white magic produced by an alchemist who turned his back on the establishment in order to find God, art and poetry." He died in 2011.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in., 178pp. Slight shelfwear, tight binding, interior text clean. Dust jacket slightly worn but clean, no tears. Near Fine copy in Near Fine copy.

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Hardback or Cased Book. Etat : New. Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. A definitive volume illuminating the under-studied role of tarot design in the Surrealist movementMany long-held aficionados of Surrealism will have heard of the tarot created by Salvador Dali, or of Arcane 17, Andre Breton's novel dedicated to Major Arcana card XVII, The Star. Those with more recent interest might have also encountered the wonderful deck designed by Leonora Carrington, discovered in Mexico in 2018. But was there really a place for tarot in Surrealism? Did the Surrealists prophesize with tarot cards, or just play with them? Did they use existing cards, and if so, which ones? Did they make their own?This groundbreaking publication from Fulgur Press, a leading voice on esotericism and magic in visual culture, answers these questions and many more. Through a series of essays from renowned experts in the field, including Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq, the book addresses a topic that has received very little in-depth scholarly study so far. Extensively illustrated, Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story highlights surrealist tarot designs, examines the incorporation of tarot cards and designs in surrealist film, art, literature and polemics, and explores the influence of surrealist visual tropes on contemporary tarot design. Spanning the 1920s to the present day, the book explores the full breadth of international surrealist interest in cartomancy. Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story highlights work from a wide-ranging slew of Surrealists, from Penny Slinger to Ithell Colquhoun, from Victor Brauner to Jorge Camacho, and from Kay Sage to Alejandro Jodorowsky, among many others. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st. Cloth, xi, 254 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. *** "Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until Richard Shillitoe's 2009 book Ithell Colquhoun: Magician Born of Nature initiated her revaluation--followed by Fulgur's 2016 publication Decad of Intelligence, the Tate's 2019 acquisition of more than 5,000 Colquhoun works and Amy Hale's 2020 biography. Colquhoun occupies a unique place within the lineage of occult Surrealist painters such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, as her presence in the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition Milk of Dreams demonstrated. This volume is the first critical examination of her diverse legacy, compiling papers from a 2018 conference on Colquhoun and her contemporaries Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and Stella Snead. Contributors explore themes of authorship and agency, Colquhoun's drawing practice, her Celtic motifs, British Surrealism and alchemy." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.…

Hardcover. Etat : As New. 1st Edition. Oversized in pictorial boards, not issued with dust jacket. Book of color photography including more than 70 images produced using a black light ritual space, creating both haunting and euphoric photographs. Clean, tight unblemished copy. Ira Cohen (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : New. A sweeping panorama of images of women in alchemical manuscripts, early printed books, prints and paintings The images of women compiled in this pioneering volume evolved from alchemical philosophy, in which gendered and sexualized concepts are used to describe physical matter and laboratory processes. When alchemical imagery arose in the late Middle Ages, and over the next three centuries, images of women developed in ways that reflected wider social pressures. Building on scholarly studies of the increasing exclusion of women from public arenas in the early modern period, The Alchemical Feminine examines the transformations of alchemical images of women and the increasing masculinization of earlier feminine imagery. When alchemy returned to the Latin West, metals were thought to be composed of hot, dry, fixed Philosophic Sulphur and cool, moist, volatile Philosophic Mercury. In the laboratory, these lovers fused in a "Chemical Wedding" that produced their child, the "Philosophers' Stone," a mysterious catalyst enabling the transformation of base metals into silver and gold. As alchemical imagery developed, women appeared as ancient philosophers, religious figures, royal queens, sexual partners, cosmological personifications, deities, allegorical symbols of Nature and the wives of fools. Herbal alchemy also had ancient roots and it is in this realm that women as alchemical practitioners can be found. Using abundant illustrations, this book examines the alchemical feminine and the thematic diversity of alchemical images of women.…

Hardcover. Etat : New. Breton's late treatise on magic and art appears for the first time in English, complete with citations, commentaries and a bibliography What is "Magic Art"? In 1953, André Breton, founder of the Surrealist movement, was invited by a prestigious French publisher to explore answers to this question. His resulting analysis is wide-ranging and evocative. Beginning with a literary review of magic and art, Breton draws upon Novalis and Baudelaire before considering the prehistoric rock art of Spain and France, the native art of the Pacific Northwest, the magical grimoires and alchemical symbolism of the Middle Ages, and the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Antoine Caron, Paolo Uccello, Gustav Moreau, Paul Gauguin and the Surrealists. Through these and other diverse sources, Breton traces a mystery that lies at the heart of our timeless fascination with otherness and seeks to place Surrealism as a successor to a magical sensibility that began with art itself. First published in 1957 as L'Art magique, this important text is offered here as an English translation for the first time. Working from manuscript notes for the original project, this edition presents the iconographic content as Breton intended, together with more than 300 new citations and a comprehensive bibliography that emphasizes sources found in Breton's own library. André Breton (1896-1966) was one of the founders and most controversial exponents of Surrealism, defining the movement in his first Surrealist Manifesto as "pure psychic automatism." Fleeing from Europe during World War II, Breton traveled throughout North America staging Surrealist exhibitions and lending his voice to several political movements.…

hardcover. Etat : Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized.

Hardcover. Etat : Brand New. 212 pages. 9.00x2.00x12.00 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Etat : New Book. First Edition. 24.5cm x 17cm. 254 pages, colour illustrations. Purple cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated onlay. "Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until recent years. This volume is the first critical examination of her diverse legacy, compiling papers from a 2018 conference on Colquhoun and her contemporaries Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and Stella Snead. Colquhoun occupies a unique place within the lineage of occult Surrealist painters such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, as her presence in the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition Milk of Dreams demonstrated.Contributors explore themes of authorship and agency, ColquhounÂ's drawing practice, her Celtic motifs, British Surrealism and alchemy." (publisher's blurb) Category: Art & Design; 21st Century: 2020s; Magic, Mysticism & the Occult. ISBN/EAN: 9781399936484. Inventory No: 0033208.…

Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. A definitive volume illuminating the under-studied role of tarot design in the Surrealist movementMany long-held aficionados of Surrealism will have heard of the tarot created by Salvador Dali, or of Arcane 17, Andre Breton's novel dedicated to Major Arcana card XVII, The Star. Those with more recent interest might have also encountered the wonderful deck designed by Leonora Carrington, discovered in Mexico in 2018. But was there really a place for tarot in Surrealism? Did the Surrealists prophesize with tarot cards, or just play with them? Did they use existing cards, and if so, which ones? Did they make their own?This groundbreaking publication from Fulgur Press, a leading voice on esotericism and magic in visual culture, answers these questions and many more. Through a series of essays from renowned experts in the field, including Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq, the book addresses a topic that has received very little in-depth scholarly study so far. Extensively illustrated, Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story highlights surrealist tarot designs, examines the incorporation of tarot cards and designs in surrealist film, art, literature and polemics, and explores the influence of surrealist visual tropes on contemporary tarot design. Spanning the 1920s to the present day, the book explores the full breadth of international surrealist interest in cartomancy. Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story highlights work from a wide-ranging slew of Surrealists, from Penny Slinger to Ithell Colquhoun, from Victor Brauner to Jorge Camacho, and from Kay Sage to Alejandro Jodorowsky, among many others. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near fine. Second Edition. Second Edition. Hardcover. 12.5" x 9.5". 158pp. Hardcover paper over boards with cloth spine lettered in red gilt. Very mild shelf wear, else like new. From the publisher: A full-color facsimile of an 18th-century black-magic compendium. 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. As the co-editor of this volume Hereward Tilton notes, the manuscript "appears at first sight to be a 'grimoire' or magician's manual intended for noviciates of black magic. Psychedelic drug use, animal sacrifice, sigillary body art, masturbation fantasy and the necromantic manipulation of gallows-corpses count among the transgressive procedures it depicts. With their aid hidden treasures are wrested from guardian spirits, and the black magician's highest ambition-an infernal transfiguration and union with the Devil-can be fulfilled." Hidden for decades within the Wellcome Library collection, Touch Me Not is published here as a full-color facsimile. The German and Latin texts have been translated by Hereward Tilton and Merlin Cox, scholars who have explored the sources for the various elements and provided copious references. Tilton provides an introduction that lays out the context for the survival of this extraordinary manuscript. 12.5" x 9.5". 158pp. Hardcover paper over boards with cloth spine lettered in red gilt. Very mild shelf wear, else like new. From the publisher: A full-color facsimile of an 18th-century black-magic compendium. 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. As the co-editor of this volume Hereward Tilton notes, the manuscript "appears at first sight to be a 'grimoire' or magician's manual intended for noviciates of black magic. Psychedelic drug use, animal sacrifice, sigillary body art, masturbation fantasy and the necromantic manipulation of gallows-corpses count among the transgressive procedures it depicts. With their aid hidden treasures are wrested from guardian spirits, and the black magician's highest ambition-an infernal transfiguration and union with the Devil-can be fulfilled." Hidden for decades within the Wellcome Library collection, Touch Me Not is published here as a full-color facsimile. The German and Latin texts have been translated by Hereward Tilton and Merlin Cox, scholars who have explored the sources for the various elements and provided copious references. Tilton provides an introduction that lays out the context for the survival of this extraordinary manuscript.…

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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A definitive volume illuminating the under-studied role of tarot design in the Surrealist movementMany long-held aficionados of Surrealism will have heard of the tarot created by Salvador Dalí, or of Arcane 17, André Breton's novel dedicated to Major Arcana card XVII, The Star. Those with more recent interest might have also encountered the wonderful deck designed by Leonora Carrington, discovered in Mexico in 2018. But was there really a place for tarot in Surrealism Did the Surrealists prophesize with tarot cards, or just play with them Did they use existing cards, and if so, which ones Did they make their own This groundbreaking publication from Fulgur Press, a leading voice on esotericism and magic in visual culture, answers these questions and many more. Through a series of essays from renowned experts in the field, including Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq, the book addresses a topic that has received very little in-depth scholarly study so far. Extensively illustrated, Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story highlights surrealist tarot designs, examines the incorporation of tarot cards and designs in surrealist film, art, literature and polemics, and explores the influence of surrealist visual tropes on contemporary tarot design. Spanning the 1920s to the present day, the book explores the full breadth of international surrealist interest in cartomancy. Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story highlights work from a wide-ranging slew of Surrealists, from Penny Slinger to Ithell Colquhoun, from Victor Brauner to Jorge Camacho, and from Kay Sage to Alejandro Jodorowsky, among many others.…

Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Near Fine hardcover with dust jacket wrapped in mylar. Published by Fulgur, UK in a limited edition of 700 copies. 35 color illustrations, 15 black & white.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 2nd Edition. Mystical, erotic and surrealist 'photo-romance'. Much revised edition of an original published in 1977. Unpaginated, ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. Revised edition, first printing. Illustrated black cloth boards. Minimal shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…