{"id":6687,"date":"2010-01-21T02:29:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T01:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2010-01-21T02:29:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T01:29:32","slug":"new-austin-spare-grimoires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/21\/new-austin-spare-grimoires\/","title":{"rendered":"New Austin Spare grimoires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lashtal.com\/nuke\/Article1285.phtml\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/spare.jpg\" alt=\"spare.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lashtal.com\/nuke\/Article1285.phtml\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Starfire<\/em> catalogue<\/a> has news of the unearthing of two unfinished grimoires by Austin Osman Spare both of which are due for publication later this year. The two books\u2014<em>The Focus of Life &amp; The Papyrus of Amen-AOS<\/em> and <em>The Arcana of AOS &amp; the Consciousness of Kia-Ra<\/em>\u2014date from 1905\u201306 and I presume the picture from the catalogue shown above is from one of these. No details yet as to price of either volume. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/2010\/01\/20\/forthcoming-austin-osman-spare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These two grimoires by Spare are at once enigmatic and full of haunting beauty. The paintings and drawings from each notebook are here reproduced in full colour. With analytical essays by Michael Staley, Stephen Pochin and William Wallace, and an introduction by Robert Ansell, this publication adds to our understanding of Spare\u2019s early years as an artist, mystic and philosopher, and sheds light on the early development of his sigillisation techniques.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/04\/06\/austin-spare-absinthe\/\">Austin Spare absinthe<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/09\/austin-spares-behind-the-veil\/\">Austin Spare\u2019s Behind the Veil<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/05\/15\/austin-osman-spare\/\">Austin Osman Spare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Starfire catalogue has news of the unearthing of two unfinished grimoires by Austin Osman Spare both of which are due for publication later this year. The two books\u2014The Focus of Life &amp; The Papyrus of Amen-AOS and The Arcana of AOS &amp; the Consciousness of Kia-Ra\u2014date from 1905\u201306 and I presume the picture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/01\/21\/new-austin-spare-grimoires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Austin Spare grimoires&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,16],"tags":[317,2469,316,1941],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-occult","tag-absinthe","tag-austin-osman-spare","tag-austin-spare","tag-robert-ansell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1JR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}