Description: A revised edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare. A revised edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare. London has harbored many curious characters, but few more curious than the artist and visionary Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956). A controversial enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world, the young Spare was hailed as a genius and a new Aubrey Beardsley, while George Bernard Shaw reportedly said "Spare's medicine is too strong for the average man." But Spare was never made for worldly success and he went underground, falling out of the gallery system to live in poverty and obscurity south of the river. Absorbed in occultism and sorcery, voyaging into inner dimensions, and surrounding himself with cats and familiar spirits, he continued to produce extraordinary art while developing a magical philosophy of pleasure, obsession, and the subjective nature of reality. Today Spare is both forgotten and famous, a cult figure whose modest life has been much mythologized since his death. This groundbreaking biographical study offers wide-ranging insights into Spare's art, mind and world, reconnecting him with the art history that ignored him and exploring his parallel London; a bygone place of pub pianists, wealthy alchemists, and monstrous owls. This richly readable and illuminating biography takes us deep into the strange inner world that this most enigmatic of artists inhabited, shedding new light while allowing just a few shadowy corners to flourish unspoiled. Revised, updated, and with a new afterword by the author, this is the definitive edition of Phil Baker's critically lauded Austin Osman Spare- The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist.
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EAN: 9781913689650
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Book Title: Austin Osman Spare, Revised Edition : the Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Strange Engineering Attractor
Topic: History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Magick Studies, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Body, Mind & Spirit, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Author: Phil Baker
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
