Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive - Hardcover

Barbier, Laetitia

 
9781419756375: Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1419756370 ISBN 13: 9781419756375
Verlag: Abrams & Chronicle Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Laetitia Barbier’s Tarot and Divination Cards is a stunning visual history of tarot.

With hundreds of images drawn from more than 100 decks, rarely published and often forgotten in library archives, this book offers the first visual history of tarot.

This beautiful 400-page book presents—for the first time—a close look at 500 years of figurative card decks created or used for fortune telling, divinations, and oracle purposes, and explores, one card at the time, their iconographic roots at the crossroads of the medieval imaginarium, Western esoteric wisdom, folklore, and also contemporary art and pop culture.

Used for self-exploration or divination, tarot has, for more than 500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric tools, looming large in today’s mainstream culture. Why? Because the cards are inexpensive and easy to carry—a perfect traveling companion and, therefore, an invitation to a journey inward and out.

Humans are drawn to playing games and feel driven to find meaning in the chaos of paradoxical signs. The vivid iconography of the “Arcanas” speak to us like no other language, moving us to the core, weaving through each card a universal story, a metaphorical pathway of transformation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

French-born Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar and curator, as well as a professional tarot reader and teacher. She earned a bachelor’s degree in art history at the Sorbonne in Paris. Barbier has worked with Morbid Anatomy as the programming director and head librarian since 2012. Her work has been featured in Atlas Obscura, Vice, and Death: A Graveside Companion (Thames & Hudson). Barbier shares her love for tarot and obscure fortune-telling decks and techniques through her Instagram account, where she has nearly 40,000 followers.

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Used for self-exploration or divination, Tarot has, for more than a 500 years, been the most popular and accessible of all esoteric tools, looming large in today’s mainstream culture. Why? Because the cards are inexpensive and easy to carry-a perfect traveling companion and, therefore, an invitation to a journey inward and out. Humans are drawn to playing games and feel driven to find meaning in the chaos of paradoxical signs. The vivid iconography of the “arcanas” speak to us like no other language, mo

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Verlag
Abrams & Chronicle Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1419756370
ISBN 13 
9781419756375
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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