Author: Michael A. E. DummettPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Some remarks on Mamluk playing cards
Author: Michael A. E. DummettMamluk Playing Cards
Author: Leo Ary MayerPublisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Card games
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Further Comments on Mamluk Playing Cards
Author: Richard EttinghausenFurther Comments on Mamluk Playing Cards
Author: Richard EttinghausenPublisher:
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Category : Cards
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Futher Comments on Mamluk Playing Cards
Author: Richard EttinghausenMamluk Playing Cards
Author: MayerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004659463
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Mamluk playing cards
Author: L. A. MayerMamluk Playing Cards, Etc
Author: Leo Ary MayerThe Reception of the Printed Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Author: Grażyna JurkowlaniecPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000173127
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations while broadening the geographic field of inquiry to Central Europe and the British Isles and considering the reception of the prints on other continents. The role of human actors proves particularly prominent, i.e. the circumstances that informed creators’, producers’, owners’ and beholders’ motivations and responses. Certainly, such a complex relationship between things, people and images is not an exclusive feature of the pre-modern period’s print cultures. However, the rise of printmaking challenged some established rules in the arts and visual realms and thus provides a fruitful point of departure for further study of the development of the various functions and responses to printed images in the sixteenth century. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, print history, book history and European studies. The introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003029199-1/introduction-gra%C5%BCyna-jurkowlaniec-magdalena-herman?context=ubx&refId=b6a86646-c9f3-490d-8a06-2946acd75fda
A Cultural History of Tarot
Author: Helen FarleyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857711822
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing cards of tarot have always exerted strong fascination, way beyond their original purpose, and the multiple resonances of the deck are ubiquitous. From T S Eliot and his 'wicked pack of cards' in "The Waste Land" to the psychic divination of Solitaire in Ian Fleming's "Live and Let Die"; and from the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley to the deck's adoption by New Age practitioners, the cards have in modern times become inseparably connected to the occult. They are now viewed as arguably the foremost medium of prophesying and foretelling. Yet, as the author shows, originally the tarot were used as recreational playing cards by the Italian nobility in the Renaissance. It was only much later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, that the deck became associated with esotericism before evolving finally into a diagnostic tool for mind, body and spirit. This is the first book to explore the remarkably varied ways in which tarot has influenced culture. Tracing the changing patterns of the deck's use, from game to mysterious oracular device, Helen Farley examines tarot's emergence in 15th century Milan and discusses its later associations with astrology, kabbalah and the Age of Aquarius.