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Baker Phil - Austin Osman Spare The Life And Legend Of London's Lost Artist - Paperback
Baker Phil - Austin Osman Spare The Life And Legend Of London's Lost Artist - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Austin Osman Spare The Life And Legend Of London's Lost Artist
Author(s): Baker Phil
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Barcode: 9781913689650
Pages: 344 Pages, 12 Colour Illustrations, 50 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 11/21/2023
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
Description: 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.
Title: Austin Osman Spare The Life And Legend Of London's Lost Artist
Author(s): Baker Phil
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Barcode: 9781913689650
Pages: 344 Pages, 12 Colour Illustrations, 50 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 11/21/2023
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
