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Product Identifiers

PublisherCernunnos

ISBN-101419756370

ISBN-139781419756375

eBay Product ID (ePID)20050100339

Product Key Features

Book TitleTarot and Divination Cards : a Visual Archive

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicDivination / Tarot, Spiritual, General, Divination / Fortune Telling

Publication Year2021

IllustratorYes

GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Self-Help, Psychology

AuthorLaetitia Barbier

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight63.7 Oz

Item Length10.2 in

Item Width7.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-941114

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal133.32424

SynopsisUsed 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, moving us to the core, weaving through each cards a universal story, a metaphorical pathway of transformation. This 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 will explore, one card at the time, their iconographic roots at the cross-roads of the medieval imaginarium, Western esoteric wisdom, folklore, and also contemporary art and pop culture. With hundreds of images drawn from more than 100 decks, rarely published and often forgotten in library archives, it will offer the first visual history of tarot., 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.

LC Classification NumberBF1879.T2