Twenty-Two Impressions - Notes From the Major Arcana

A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world.The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century set of playing cards, the deck on which the occult use of tarot was originally based. When Jessica Friedmann bought her first pack, the unfamiliar images sparked a deep immersion in the art, symbols, myths, and misrepresentations of Renaissance-era tarot.Over the years that followed, and as tarot became a part of her daily rhythm, Friedmann's life was touched by floods and by drought, by devastating fires and a pandemic, creating an environment in which the only constant was change.Twenty-Two Impressions: notes from the Major Arcana uses the Tarot de Marseille as a touchstone, blending historical research, art history, and critical insights with personal reflections. In these essays, Friedmann demonstrates how the cards of the Major Arcana can be used as a lens through which to examine the unexpectedness - and subtle beauty - of 21st-century life.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Friedmann
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2024
• EAN: 9781913348960
• ISBN: 978-1-913348-96-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Tarot, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, History of Ideas, Cultural Studies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Divination / Tarot, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, ART / History / Renaissance, ART / Popular Culture, History of Art, Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice, Social and cultural history, Renaissance art, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Society and culture: general