Tarot: A Graphic History
Pamela Colman Smith's story of arcana, symbols & magic
$35.85
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2025
Summary
Pamela Colman-Smith: artist, occultist, true bohemian. Her illustrations defined the iconography of the classic tarot deck, but she is all too often forgotten.
Born in London in 1878, Colman-Smith moved to Jamaica with her parents at the age of eleven and then to New York to study art. She dropped out of college following her mother’s death in 1896, and after her father died in 1899 she found herself back in London, joining the infamous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a secret soci…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836002734 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1836002734 |
| Author: | Valentina Grande |
| Publisher: | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Leaping Hare Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 170mm x 230mm |
| Series: | Graphic MBS |
Critics Review
“From the Fool, the beginning of every new adventure, to the Magician, who focusses energy, to the Hanged Man, who helps us see things from a different perspective, until finally we embrace the World and fulfil our destinies, Tarot: A Graphic History offers a unique, informative, and original ‘graphic novel’ style approach to the study of the tarot and the biography of one of the most influential practitioners of the late 19th Century.”
* Midwest Book Review *Valentina Grande
Valentina Grande is a teacher and scriptwriter. She also hosts literary radio programs, including Simply Salinger and 42 La risposta, broadcast on Radio Onda d’Urto and Radio CittàFujiko.
Her published works include:
- Il mio Salinger (2018), later translated into French.
- Raymond Carver, una storia (2018).
- Feminist Art (2020), published in Germany, USA, Great Britain, Spain, France, and Korea.
- Bauhaus, l’idea che ha cambiato il mondo (2021), published in France, Germany, UK, and USA.
- Gertrude Stein e la generazione perduta, first published in France and subsequently translated into Italian, German, and Spanish.
Her latest book, Les nageuses de minuit, is scheduled for publication in France and Belgium in April 2025.
Valentina Grande lives and works in Bologna, Italy.
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