Articles
The following articles on AOS have appeared over the last 100 years and chart the way appreciation of his art and philosophy has evolved. Friends, acquaintances and contemporary critics have written many of them and collectively they give us the best insight into Spare’s character and life. In addition there is a substantial representation of work from leading lights in contemporary Spare studies, reproduced here with permission. The material has been listed in chronological order of appearance.
- Austin O. Spare by R.E.D. Sketchley
- Austin Osman Spare: A Note on His Work by Ralph Straus
- Symbology in Aesthetics in Relation to the Art of Austin O. Spare by Grace Rogers
- Pictures of the Occult by a Psychical Artist
- Sex in Art by Clifford Bax
- Poor Painter with Cats
- Magicians in London: A Recollection by Oswell Blakeston
- Obituary
- Austin Osman Spare 1886-1956 by Haydn Mackay
- Spare Parts by Ramsey Dukes
- Introduction to The Book of Pleasure by Kenneth Grant
- Exploring Spare’s Magic by Lionel Snell
- The Bookplate Designs of Austin Osman Spare by Robert Ansell
- Neither-Neither: Austin Osman Spare and the Underworld by Marcus M. Jungkurth
- ‘Memories of a sorcerer’: notes on Gilles Deleuze-Felix Guattari, Austin Osman Spare and Anomalous Sorceries by Matt Lee, University of Sussex
- The Living Word of Zos by Robert Ansell
- Late Nineteenth-Century Automatism and Proto-Cybernetic Communication: the case of Austin Osman Spare by Chris Miles
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