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Tarot Ultimate Bundle

Three of our most notable projects, bundled for your convenience.

Original price was: £115.00.Current price is: £97.00.

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If you saw 'Ultimate' and clicked, then you're a true tarot enthusiast! Here we've combined three of our major tarot projects into an inspiring and helpfully discounted bundle. The iconic Major Arcana of Leonora Carrington has a booklet-length essay from scholars Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq; the revolutionary Taro as Colour deck from Ithell Colquhoun has an essay from Colquhoun expert, Richard Shillitoe; and to augment these fabulous surrealist women, Tessel M. Bauduin's broad survey Surrealism and the Tarot explores the wider impact of tarot on the Surrealism movement. It contains extensive essays on both Carrington and Colquhoun, but what else does it discuss?

The surrealists turned to tarot cards for divination, but this represents only one facet of their extensive and versatile century-long engagement with tarot. In surrealist work and practice we find the tarot as oracular tools, maps for initiatory journeys of self-discovery, countercultural objects, and aesthetic inspiration. Many surrealists' radical imaginations took tarot sets or individual cards as starting or reference points for new creative work in literature, film, painting, and display design, among others.
Surrealism and the Tarot: A Love Story is the first book to explore these issues in depth. This groundbreaking and extensively illustrated collection brings together leading scholars to illuminate a fascinating but understudied aspect of surrealist practice. Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Remedios Varo, Roberto Matta, Penny Slinger, Jorge Comacho, Marie Wilson and Victor Brauner are among the many surrealist luminaries discussed in this volume. Drawing on previously unexplored archives and featuring rare illustrations, this collection reveals how tarot became a key catalyst for surrealist creativity and spiritual exploration.

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Details

Leonora Carrington
Major Arcana
Deck of 22 Major Arcana tarot cards
12cm x 9.5cm
48 page booklet with introductory essay by Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq
Custom box
English text
Edition scented by Maison Shehu

Ithell Colquhoun
Taro as Colour
Deck of 78 taro cards
15.4cm x 10.6cm
22 page booklet with an introductory essay by Richard Shillitoe
Custom box
English text
Edition scented by Maison Shehu

Tessel M. Bauduin, editor
Surrealism and the Tarot
Hardback
30cm x 24cm
212 pages
174 coloured illustrations | 10 monochrome
2.2 kg
English text

Contents

Leonora Carrington: Major Arcana

Major Arcana (deck of 22 taro cards) – Leonora Carrington
Introductory Booklet – Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq

Ithell Colquhoun: Taro as Colour

Taro as Colour (deck of 78 cards) — Ithell Colquhoun
Introductory booklet — Richard Shillitoe

Surrealism and the Tarot, edited by Tessel M. Bauduin

1. Introduction: Surrealist Games, Fortunes, and Cards — Tessel M. Bauduin
2. Triumphant Trumps to Occult Tarots: a Mini-History — Tessel M. Bauduin 
3. ‘Le Jour est un attentat’: An Experimental System of Knowledge by Leonora Carrington, Charles Duits, and Roberto Matta — Paulina Caro Troncoso 
4. Kay Sage and the Tarot — Jennifer Jäger
5. The Star in André Breton’s Arcane 17 — Michael Richardson 
6. Reaching for the Stars: Matta’s Tarot Cards — Tessel M. Bauduin 
7. The 1947 Tarot Stairway: a Gothic Trajectory of Initiation — Tessel M. Bauduin
8. Victor Brauner: The Surrealist and The Lovers — Daniel Zamani 
9. ‘Sirens of Knowledge’: Re-visions of the Juggler in the Work of Female Surrealists — Victoria Ferentinou 
10. Morphologies of Death: Tarot, Alchemy and Heraldry in the Art of Jorge Camacho — Will Atkin
11. Finding a Path in a World of Signs: Tarot in Post-war Parisian Surrealism — Anne Foucault 
12. The Tarot in André Breton’s L’Art magique — Claudia Mesch
13. The Perfume of the Secret Rose: Ithell Colquhoun and the Taro — Robert Shehu-Ansell 
14. Leonora Carrington, The Sun (XVIIII), 1962 — Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq
15. For Valentine Reading the Tarot: Valentine Penrose — Felicity Gee 
16. Penny Slinger’s Dakini Oracle— Judith Noble
17. The Magician’s Card Tricks: Interrogating Dalí’s Tarot Deck — Elliott H. King
18. The Invention of a Cinematic Tarot: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (1973) and its Surrealist Intertexts — Abigail Susik
19. Surrealist Resonances in Contemporary Tarot Decks — Emily E. Auger

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