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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I received an e-mail yesterday from Caduceus Books that three pencil drawings by noted occultist Austin Osman Spare have recently become available, as well as a work in pastel (pictured left).
Description of the illustrations and prices follow:
Fulgur selling original Austin Osman Spare artwork
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Fulgur, famed publisher of all things Sparian, has faciliated the sale of work by Austin Osman Spare in the past and today they’ve announced new works on offer.
These four new pieces are from a private collection in London, and a photograph from Spare’s 1952 exhibition in Mansion House tavern, South London.
They include a sketch in pencil on paper, [...]
Almanac of Precariomancy
Monday, May 12th, 2008The Almanac of Precariomancy is a set of tarot trump cards appealing to an anti-corporate sentiment.
A few cards retain their usual title such as the Chariot and Justice, others are more creatively and thematically retitled: the Magician has been renamed the Intern, the Empress is the Operator, the Emperor is the Manager, and the Start [...]
News: Flying Spaghetti Monster Statue Outside Courthouse
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Members of the The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Crossville, Tennessee have installed a giant Flying Spaghetti Monster statue outside The Cumberland County Courthouse (pictured left); the work of Ariel and David Safdie, devout Pastafarians.
The following is an excerpt from the statement issued at the installation, as reported on Venganza.org:
We are lucky enough [...]
Art versus arist?
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Last week I posted about my introduction to Baudelaire and shared a few excerpts from Twenty Prose Poems. I’ve been reading Les fleur du mal; my edition 1963 edition was translated in the ’30s by George Dillon and Edna St. Vincent Millay with an introduction written by the latter.
After praising the translation in which she [...]
Steampunk, Datamancer.net and Enochian keyboards
Sunday, March 30th, 2008I have a confession to make: I have a huge crush on the whole steampunk subculture.
The aesthetic of steampunk harkens back to an era where steam power was still widely used, and often adopts a pseudo-Victorian look. Inspiration is taken from H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and fantastical technological inventions, sometimes set in an alternate-history.
I [...]
Original sketches by Austin Osman Spare for sale by Fulgur
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008In December I posted about the Austin Osman Spare artwork sold by Fulgur Limited. New sketches have been released from the collection of Ernest Chapman, collector and friend of Spare.
The sketches date from between 1953-1955, and include “a series of pencil drawings in the sabbatic theme that include images of metamorphosis and pan-sexual tension now [...]