{"product_id":"the-catalpa-monographs-a-critical-survey-of-austin-osman-spare-dr-william-wallace-first-edition","title":"The Catalpa Monographs: A Critical Survey of Austin Osman Spare - Dr William Wallace (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe art and life of Austin Osman Spare, with previously unseen letters from Kenneth Grant to the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2015 Jerusalem Press hardback. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNear new condition with minimal marks to the back of the dust jacket and some very mild foxing to the top page edge. Otherwise practically unread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the publisher: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Critical Survey of the Art and Writings of Austin Osman Spare\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eFeaturing 93 colour images and 50 unpublished artworks by Spare this book expands upon the books first publishing in the 1980s. The author returns to his earliest writing as the basis for a newly updated inquiry into the volatile essences of Spare’s art. This is a substantial and thought-provoking book by the most prolific contributor to Sparean scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComprising a revised and much expanded republication of the long out of print books\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘The Early…’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand ‘\u003cem\u003eThe Late works of Austin Osman Spare’\u003c\/em\u003e, it also includes 20 very early ink drawings from a recently discovered private collection. An extensive new introduction analyzes the themes and obsessions in Spare’s art; palimpsests and Realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecades of fastidious research have yielded many insights and revelations which are now elucidated with many references to surprising source imagery. By immersing himself in Spare’s creative impetus Wallace has explored not only occult texts and alchemical art, but has also found a rich vein of reference and allusion to the biblical texts, and the art of Blake, Hogarth and Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrucially the reader is now furnished with the solutions to several iconographical enigmas; there is an in-depth examination the Mrs Paterson myth, ‘Black Eagle’, and the first convincing decoding of  the ‘L.C.O’C.S’ dedication of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Focus of Life\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDr Wallace also comments on an unpublished early political cartoon of Chamberlain, as well as reproducing correspondence between Kenneth Grant, and an affectionate memoir of Frank Letchford.\u003cbr\u003eThe Foreword is provided by Michael Staley; the Afterword by Stephen Pochin, who examines Spare’s life-long appropriation of artistic motifs, from Egyptian to G.F. Watts, to Rodin and George Tinworth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis vital new addition to Sparean scholarship confirms he remains at the top of his game.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fool's Journey Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57491313852681,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0932\/3302\/1193\/files\/IMG_08462.jpg?v=1793030812","url":"https:\/\/foolsjourneybooks.com\/products\/the-catalpa-monographs-a-critical-survey-of-austin-osman-spare-dr-william-wallace-first-edition","provider":"Fool's Journey Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}