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Monday, May 9, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Wormwood Star - The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron ...
The first biography of the artist, performer, poet, and occult practitioner, Cameron (Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel) is out now... was delighted to be at its launch in Treadwell's Books in London
Cameron embarked on a lifelong spiritual quest, a journey reflected in the otherworldly images she depicted,
many of them drawn from the Elemental Kingdom and astral plane, some you can see here
many of them drawn from the Elemental Kingdom and astral plane, some you can see here
Published by Mandrake of Oxford
Wormwood Star written by Spencer Kansa traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist
Marjorie Cameron,
one of the most fascinating figures to emerge from the American Underground art world and film scene.
With so much of her life and work shrouded in mystery, Wormwood Star sheds new light on this most remarkable artist and elusive occult icon.
one of the most fascinating figures to emerge from the American Underground art world and film scene.
With so much of her life and work shrouded in mystery, Wormwood Star sheds new light on this most remarkable artist and elusive occult icon.
for more info > www.spencerkansa.com
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Austin Osman Spare ... Ugly Ecstasy ...Satyr...
from the Book of Ugly Ecstasy 1924 - Fulgur 1996
it would be sentimental to say that the figures in Ugly Ectasy and Automatic Drawings
are happy despite theirhideous appearances....in the words of WH Audens poem, 'In Memory of Sigmund Freud' -
Down among the lost people like Dante, down
To the stinking fosse where the injured
Lead the ugly life of the rejected.
Nevertheless, Spare signed off Automatic Drawing on a defiant and innuendo-laden note: "Great is he who pleasures this difficult life," he wrote, and "He has found wisdom who knows how to spend"*
*Victorian euphemism for ejaculation.
excerpt from Austin Osman Spare - The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
by Phil Baker
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Dave M Mitchell...'Fungi From Yuggoth' ..illustrations
discarded prototypes from a forthcoming book from Paraphilia Magazine - 'Fungi From Yuggoth (and other strange growths)' ~ Lovecraft poems and fragments with illustrations by author, illustrator and one of the editors at Paraphilia Magazine.
you can see more of Dave Mitchells work at Paraphilia's Gallery HERE
and in the new issue of PARAPHILIA MAGAZINE issue 11 out now > HERE
Sunday, April 17, 2011
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