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The Tarot of Leonora Carrington

Five months since the initial release, we regret to say that The Tarot of Leonora Carrington is now out of print. Those of you who have ordered within the last few days will still receive your order. Happily, we still have the Leonora Carrington Major Arcana available. And if you have yet to secure a copy of this important release, we would urge you to do so.

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Ithell Colquhoun’s Taro As Colour

Following our 2017 title Taro As Colour, we will be releasing a working deck of Ithell Colquhoun’s ground-breaking designs later this year.

The boxed deck will include an essay by Robert Shehu-Ansell (pictured here with the deck) that explores Colquhoun’s interest in the tarot, commencing with her days at The Slade School of Fine Art and ending with her development of the radical, Taro As Colour. The analysis will trace her influences and the various appearances of tarot designs in her work between 1930-1970.

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Into the Mylar Chamber Cover

Into the Mylar Chamber

Hardback

$55.13

IRA COHEN
Edited by Allan Graubard
With Contributions from Allan Graubard, Ian MacFadyen, Thurston Moore, Alice Farley and Timothy Baum

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Major Arcana: Leonora Carrington

DECK

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Leonora Carrington
Introduced by Rachel Pollack

– 22 Major Arcana cards
– 16 page booklet with introductory essay by Rachel Pollack

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The Tarot of Leonora Carrington

HARDBACK

$55.13

Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq
Introduced by Gabriel Weisz Carrington

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Trans-States: The Art of Crossing Over

LIMITED EDITION

$34.45

VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS
Edited by Cavan McLaughlin
Foreword by Alan Moore

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Abraxas 4 Cover

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Abraxas Journal #4

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~~$20.67~~ $10.34

VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS
Edited by Robert Ansell and Christina Oakley Harrington

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Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West

Hardback

~~$60.64~~ $27.56

VARIOUS CONTRIBUTORS
Edited by Sarah V. Turner, Christopher M. Scheer and James G. Mansell

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The Tarot of Leonora Carrington

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$55.13

Susan Aberth and Tere Arcq
Introduced by Gabriel Weisz Carrington

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Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Compendium…

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$49.61

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Edited by Hereward Tilton and Merlin Cox

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Interview

IO:EVOE The Transvocatory Media of Barry William Hale

Artist Barry William Hale talks with Robert Fitzgerald about his work.

Interview

Meeting Le Maître

An introduction to the Art of Michael Bertiaux with an interview conducted by Ariock Van de Voorde.

Interview

Interview with Christine Ödlund

Here the artist discusses her multi-media practice and inspirations including Synaesthesia and Theosophy.

Praxis

Ellen Hausner

In this regular feature, the artist Ellen Hausner shares the role of spirituality in her work.

Interview

Endless Shifting: A Feast of Images, Swallowed By Sound

Writer, lecturer and curator Jack Sargeant interviews artist and musician Adi Newton for Abraxas 2.

Praxis

Afruz Amighi

In this regular feature, the artist Afruz Amighi shares the role of spirituality in her work.

Interview

Hilma af Klint: Painting with Spirits

PhD candidate Hedvig Martin gives insights into the paintings, life and spiritualism of Hilma af Klint.

Praxis

Lorenzo De Los Angeles

In this regular feature, the artist Lorenzo De Los Angeles shares the role of spirituality in his work.

Interview

The Metamorphic Self

The artist Cristina Francov talks with Robert Shehu-Ansell about body, vision and transfiguration.

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Leonora Carrington was born 104 years ago today. A

Leonora Carrington was born 104 years ago today. And by way of birthday gifts we are delighted with the fabulous review in April’s Artforum of ‘The Tarot of Leonora Carrington’ by @terearcq and @aberthsusan. Susan is also giving an online talk today courtesy of @philosophical_research_society, where she will be exploring Carrington’s occult themes alongside co-guest @jesshundley, series editor for Taschen’s @thelibraryofesoterica.

Golly, this cover....Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Com

Golly, this cover....Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Compendium of the Whole Magical Art, published by us in 2017 and reprinted because you loved it completely out-of-print in a matter of weeks. This is the 2019 edition... #grimoire #witch #fulgurpress

We’re busy preparing the deluxe copies of The St

We’re busy preparing the deluxe copies of The Star edition of The Tarot of Leonora Carrington for dispatch next week. Just eighty-seven examples bound in full white morocco, custom endpapers and silk box, all signed by Gabriel Weisz Carrington, the artist’s son. The edition is completely SOLD OUT. For those of you waiting; we are aiming to dispatch these with the remaining copies of the IBIS edition by the middle of next week.

DEAREST VERA: A Kaleidoscope of Facsimile Holograp

DEAREST VERA: A Kaleidoscope of Facsimile Holograph Letters to his Friend, the Poet and Painter Vera Wainwright from Austin Osman Spare - compiled by Kenneth and Steffi Grant, FULGUR PRESS, 2010.
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Deluxe edition bound in violet goatskin with illustrated endpapers and a custom slipcase. Signed by Kenneth and Steffi Grant.
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In his late creative life, Spare was sought out by artists and writers eager to receive insights of experience from the ‘Walworth Road Surrealist.’ And yet, there were very few indeed who became good friends. Vera Wainwright was one such friend. Dearest Vera is an account of their friendship told by Spare himself, through the many letters sent to his new pupil.
Those familiar with Spare will find new insights to his life and theories on art, while newcomers will discover an eccentric and gifted artist sharing a lifetime’s experience with an eager pupil.

We’re busy this week dispatching copies of The T

We’re busy this week dispatching copies of The Tarot of Leonora Carrington IBIS edition to all those buyers who have been patiently waiting since December. The edition is assembled by hand, by us. A second batch of 120 parcels went out yesterday... and we’re aiming to finish next week when the STAR edition arrives. Big thanks to everyone who has supported this important project! #leonoracarrington

The Tarot of Leonora Carrington project made an ap

The Tarot of Leonora Carrington project made an appearance in The Observer today. So it seems timely to say that we will be closing the wait-list for the reissue of the Major Arcana on February 19th. The sign-up can be found on our website homepage.

In 2016 we released the first full publication of

In 2016 we released the first full publication of Ithell Colquhoun's Decad of Intelligence, one of her most important works. If you wanted this title, we only have a handful of copies left!
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Description: Building on Colquhoun’s work with the kabbalah, the Decad of Intelligence was developed during the 1970s and is based on the list of sephirotic intelligences as set out in the Sepher Yetzirah. The work was designed to be a small book of ten enamel pieces, each depicting a different sephira, accompanied by a description of their properties.
Colquhoun intended this work to be used as a guide to contemplation for understanding the deep nature of each of the sephiroth, both in isolation and in completeness.

I:MAGE – An Inaugural Exhibition of Esoteric Art

I:MAGE – An Inaugural Exhibition of Esoteric Artists. May 19-25, 2013 was conceived and hosted by FULGUR.
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The first I:MAGE was a seven day interdisciplinary exhibition and events programme, curated by FULGUR at The Store Street Gallery, London. Shown here is one of the highlights of the event, the first public exhibition of Austin Osman Spare's Formula of Zos vel Thanatos, kindly loaned by Steffi Grant. There were also a series of important works by Ithell Colquhoun; a rare loan from the National Trust.
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Taken from the introductory talk of the exhibition - ". . . contemporary esoteric art has too often been subsumed into other categories. It has been considered post-symbolist art, art brut, surrealist art, outsider art, magical realism, neo-romanticism, or visionary art – to name a few. But while these categories are useful, they do not seem adequate to express the broad scope and inner complexities of this esoteric imagery." In light of Thursday's Leonora Carrington feature in the Daily Telegraph, which made explicit reference to her occult leanings, it is gratifying to know that the seed I:MAGE was trying to plant all those years ago is beginning to bloom. Esoteric art is a legitimate category in and of itself, worthy of acknowledgment, interest and academic exploration.

We were very pleased to see this feature on Leonor

We were very pleased to see this feature on Leonora Carrington (and Ithell Colquhoun) in today's Daily Telegraph. Two incredibly significant artists getting some well deserved acclaim, without the usual omission or downplay of their occult connections. Progress!

Songs for the Witch Woman by Jack W. Parsons and M

Songs for the Witch Woman by Jack W. Parsons and Marjorie Cameron is nearly completely out of print! We're down to our last 100 copies of this title.
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Description: There are few modern love stories as passionate and poignant as the relationship between rocket scientist Jack Parsons and his artist lover, Marjorie Cameron. At once a muse, occult student and primal force of nature – a woman he proclaimed as his ‘elemental’ in a letter to Aleister Crowley – Cameron fascinated, troubled and inspired Parsons. Songs for the Witch Woman is a project born from this turbulent love story. A series of poems written by Parsons reveal his feelings toward his often absent lover. And beside these words are images from the hand of Cameron, illustrating and echoing the intimate themes. After Parsons’ tragic death in June 1952 we find the notebook in which this work was recorded continues, as a bereaved Cameron keeps a diary of her magical working in Lamb Canyon, California. In the dark desert her words become a raw lament as she attempts to gain contact with her Holy Guardian Angel. And throughout the working, the memory of Jack is never far from her mind. Now published more than sixty years after it was written, Songs for the Witch Woman stands as a testament to lasting power of love and loss.

Be the first to know all news about the second pri

Be the first to know all news about the second printing of the Leonora Carrington Major Arcana deck by signing up to our list on the FULGUR PRESS website homepage. The accompanying book, The Tarot of Leonora Carrington, is currently still available.

Throwback to the Black Mirror: Magic in Art exhibi

Throwback to the Black Mirror: Magic in Art exhibition at the Arts University Bournemouth, curated by Dominic Shepherd in November 2017. The exhibition explored the influences and roles of magic, enchantment and the occult in contemporary art and how they function as aesthetic, conceptual and political forces. The event included a Black Mirror Network panel discussion (image 5) and an exclusive live performance (image 4) in response to the exhibition where staff and students performed an interpretation of the Palo Mayombe ritual dance that originated in Cuba.

Anaïs Nin (February 21st 1903 - January 14th 1977

Anaïs Nin (February 21st 1903 - January 14th 1977)
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"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."
- Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931 - 1934.
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Image: Anaïs Nin drapée dans un châle, 1932.
Copyright: Brassaï (Gyula Halász)

Recently we have seen a surge in sales for our 201

Recently we have seen a surge in sales for our 2018 publication Taro As Color by Ithell Colquhoun. If you wanted to get your hands on the Earth (indigo) cover we have very few copies left! It is currently offered on our website at a discounted price.
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"After I had completed the pack, I saw some slides showing nebulae in outer space and the birth of stars. These recalled my designs and confirmed my conviction of their cosmographic function."
- Ithell Colquhoun, ‘Taro As Colour’, 1978.

Simone de Beauvoir - writer, philosopher, activist

Simone de Beauvoir - writer, philosopher, activist and so much more, was born on this day in 1908.
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"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."
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Image: Simone de Beauvoir at home in 1957. Copyright: Jack Nisberg/Shipa Press/Rex Features.

Looking back at some of the fantastic events that

Looking back at some of the fantastic events that have taken place over the last few years. We hope that exhibitions, conferences and performances will return in the not so distant future. . . but until then, while we are facing another lockdown, we will be sharing some images of such events. Here's to better, and safer times for all.