On 14th November 2010 I managed to get to the last day of the “Austin Osman Spare: Fallen Visonary” exhibition featuring the art of Austin Osman Spare at The Cuming Museum.
Jerusalem Press has published a lavish book to accompany this exhibition called Austin Osman Spare: Cockney Visionary Conceived, Compiled and Edited by Stephen Pochin.
The book also includes a documentary which lasts about 30 minutes called The Bones Go Last.
The books contents include:
An introduction: Robert Ansell
A cartographic study: Gavin W Semple
Biographical essay: Geraldine Beskin (of Atlantis bookshop)
Magical essay: Michael Staley (who organised a great AOS night in London commemorating 50 years since his death in 2006)
Essays by the curators: Christopher Jordan and Stephen Pochin
Commentaries on the works featured: Dr. William Wallace
They are also set to publish a new version of Spare’s Book of Pleasure which will have an introduction by Alan Moore.
EARTH INFERNO 1905
NUDE HOLDING A CRYSTAL BALL 1914-20
THEURGY 1928
DREAM CONTENT HOPES, FEARS AND HALF-COGNIZANT 1954
Short video clip from an episode of The Culture Show (BBC UK 2010):
Thanks for the heads up, fuzzbuddy - I have always known the name, but know little of his art (I might have mumbled 'sigils' or 'magick' but probably couldn't add much to that.)
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I'll make it to the exhibition, but this glimpse intrigued me a lot - and a great clip of Alan Moore comes as a bonus.