Spare in 1904. | |
Born | 30 December 1886 |
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Died | 15 May 1956 (aged 69) London, England |
Nationality | English |
Education | Royal College of Art |
Known for | Draughtsman, painter and Occultist |
Movement | Symbolism, Proto-Surrealism |
Patron(s) | Pickford Waller, Desmond Coke, Ralph Strauss, Lord Howard de Walden, Charles Ricketts, Marc-André Raffalovich, John Gray, Aleister Crowley. |
- 1Biography
- 3Zos Kia Cultus
- 5Legacy and influence
- 7Bibliography
- 8References
Biography[edit]
Childhood: 1886–1900[edit]
Artistic training: 1900–1905[edit]
Early career: 1906–1910[edit]
Marriage and The Book of Pleasure: 1911–1916[edit]
World War I, The Focus of Life and The Anathema of Zos: 1917–1927[edit]
Surrealism and World War II: 1927–1945[edit]
Kenneth Grant and later life: 1946–1956[edit]
As artist[edit]
Zos Kia Cultus[edit]
Zos and Kia[edit]
The unconscious mind[edit]
Atavistic resurgence[edit]
Magic and sigils[edit]
Personal life[edit]
Legacy and influence[edit]
In art[edit]
In esotericism[edit]
In music[edit]
In magic[edit]
In culture[edit]
Exhibitions[edit]
- Bruton Galleries, London, October 1907
- The Baillie Gallery, London, 11–31 October 1911
- The Baillie Gallery, London, 10–31 October 1912
- The Ryder Gallery, London, 17 April – 7 May 1912
- The Baillie Gallery, London, July 1914
- St. George’s Gallery, London, March 1927
- The Lefevre Galleries, London, April 1929
- Godfrey Phillips Galleries, London, November 1930
- Artist's studio, 56A Walworth Road, Elephant, London, Autumn, 1937
- Artist's studio, 56a Walworth Road, Elephant, London, Autumn, 1938
- Archer Gallery, London, 3–30 July November 1947
- The Temple Bar (Doctors), 286 Walworth Rd. London, 28 October – 29 November 1949
- The Mansion House Tavern, 12 June – 12 July 1952
- The White Bear, London, 19 November – 1 December 1953
- Archer Gallery, London, 25 October – 26 November 1955
- The Greenwich Gallery, London, 23 July – 12 August 1964
- Alpine Club Gallery (Group Exhibition), London, 22 June – 2 July 1965
- The Obelisk Gallery, London, 1972
- The Taranman Gallery, London, 2–23 September 1974
- Oliver Bradbury & James Birch Fine Art, London, 17 November – 8 December 1984
- The Morley College Gallery, London, September 1987
- Henry Boxer, London, November 1992
- Arnolfini, Bristol, 2007
- Cuming Museum, South London, September–November 2010[122]
- Atlantis Bookshop, London, 2010[123]
- The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, October 2014 -
Bibliography[edit]
Books written and illustrated by Spare in his lifetime[edit]
Title | Year | Republished |
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Earth Inferno | 1905 | Self-published |
A Book of Satyrs | 1907 | Self-published; republished by John Lane, 1909 |
The Book of Pleasure | 1913 | Self-published |
The Focus of Life | 1921 | The Morland Press |
The Anathema of Zos | 1927 |
Books illustrated by Spare[edit]
- Behind the Veil by Ethel Rolt Wheeler. Issued by David Nutt 1906
- Songs From The Classics by Charles F. Grindrod. Published by David Nutt 1907
- The Shadow of the Ragged Stone published by Elkin Mathews. First ed 1887 (no Spare illustration). 2nd edition 1909 has a Spare illustration to the front board.
- The Equinox published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. 1909
- On the Oxford Circuit and Other Verses by Hon Mr Justice Darling. Published by Smith, Elder & Co. 1909
- The Starlit Mire by James Bertrand Russell. Published by John Lane 1911 (ed of 350 copies). Reissued London: Temple Press, 1989 (500 copies).
- Eight Poems by W.B. Yeats transcribed by Edward Pay. Published by Form at The Morland Press Ltd. 1916 (200 copies)
- Twelve Poems by J.C. Squire. Published by The Morland Press Ltd. 1916
- The Gold Tree (stories) by J.C. Squire published by Martin Secker 1917
- The Youth and the Sage by Warren Retlaw. Privately printed, 1927. Reissued: Oxon: Mandrake Press, 2003.
- Magazines edited by Spare
- Form - A Quarterly Of The Arts 1916–1922
- Golden Hind 1922–1924
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References[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^'Austin Osman Spare and the Zos Kia Cultus - Austin Osman Spare - Hermetic Library'. hermetic.com. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ^'The Art and Magic of Austin Osman Spare -'. CVLT Nation. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ^'In the verity of his visionary productions we find him of the company of Blake and Fuseli and their circle; but far superior to any of them in the mastery of representational craft.' His comeditative magical art is a dynamic framework of Tantric energy—which is to say contains absolute, real, intrivalent and of cosmological transcendental—proportions. It is similar to the language amalgamations in the book of Abramelin. Haydn Mackey, commenting in a radio program broadcast shortly after Spare's death, and; 'There now hang on one of my walls seven of his paintings, each so different in style and character that it is almost impossible to believe that the same hand was responsible for any two of them. And there rest on a table in my sitting-room overlooking Trafalgar Square three sketchbooks full of 'automatic drawings' unique in their mastery of line, unique, too, in their daring of conception.' Hannen Swaffer, 'The Mystery of an Artist' in London Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, Hulton Press, 1950
- ^'On Austin Osman Spare' in Joseph Nechvatal, 'Towards an Immersive Intelligence: Essays on the Work of Art in the Age of Computer Technology and Virtual Reality (1993–2006)' Edgewise Press. 2009, pp. 40-52
- ^ abcBaker 2011. p. 5.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 6–7.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 9, 13.
- ^ abcdRichard Cavendish (ed) Encyclopedia of the Unexplained: Magic, occultism and Parapsychology, p. 224
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 11–12.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 16.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 16–17.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 17.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 20, 32.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 18, 20.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 20–21.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 18–19.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 21, 32, 35.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 22.
- ^ abBaker 2011. p. 23.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 23–25.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 32.
- ^ abBaker 2011. p. 41.
- ^ abBaker 2011. p. 51.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 31.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 42–44, 47.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 53.
- ^ abBaker 2011. p. 44.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 47–48.
- ^Keith Richmond, 'Discord In The Garden Of Janus - Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare', in Austin Osman Spare: Artist - Occultist - Sensualist, Beskin Press, 1999.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 48, 50.
- ^The Equinox, Vol. 1, No. 2, London, September 1909.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 65–69, 88, 103.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 58.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 105.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 56.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 53–55.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 62.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 57.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 63–64.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 78–79.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 79-80.
- ^The only other available biographical detail relating to Spare's wife is a footnote in Borough Satyr, which states 'Born in Shrewsbury on 28 May 1888, her birth certificate states her name as 'Eiley,' but throughout her life she was known as 'Eily,' and occasionally 'Lily'.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 80–81.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 1.12.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 81.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 82.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 82–83.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 81, 85–88.
- ^Ansell 2005. p. 6.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 105–106.
- ^ abBaker 2011. p. 111.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 111–112.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 112–113.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 116–117.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 121.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 122–123.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 122.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 123.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 129–133.
- ^Reissued with additional material including poems by Aleister Crowley as And Now For Reality. Oxon: Mandrake Press, 1990
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 136–137.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 137–141.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 138, 141.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 139.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 144–145.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 146.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 144, 155.
- ^Reissued: London: Museum Press, 1976 (facsimile; 500 numbered copies).
- ^Baker 2011. p. 156.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 159.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 157–158.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 157, 160.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 160.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 162–164.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 165–166.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 167–170, 180–181.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 175, 184.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 177–179.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 182.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 179, 181.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 188.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 190–192.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 195.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 192–193.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 201–203.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 209–211, 217.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 238.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 213–214.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 238–241, 244.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 220–221.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 225–227.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 228–230.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 232–235, 238.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 251.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 249–250.
- ^ abBaker 2011. p. 256.
- ^Review of 'A Book of Satyrs' (by Austin Osman Spare) in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 16, No. 81, (December 1909), pp. 170-171
- ^Review of 'The Starlit Mire' (by James Bertram and F. Russel, with ten drawings by Austin Osman Spare), in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 19, No. 99 (June 1911), pp. 177-177
- ^Review of ' The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love), the Psychology of Ecstasy' (by Austin Osman Spare) in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 26, No. 139, (October 1914), pp. 38-39
- ^'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions', in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 107, No. 747, (June 1965), p. 330
- ^Borough Satyr, The Life and Art of Austin Osman Spare, compiled and edited by Robert Ansell, Fulgur Limited, 2005, p19
- ^ abSemple, Gavin. os-Kia: An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare. Fulgur, London, 1995.
- ^ abBaker 2011. p. 27.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 28–29.
- ^Moore in Baker 2011. pp. x–xi.
- ^ abBaker 2011. p. 28.
- ^ abBaker 2011. p. 89.
- ^Frater U∴D∴, High Magic: Theory & Practice, Llewellyn Worldwide, 2005, p133
- ^Frater U∴D∴, High Magic: Theory & Practice, Llewellyn Worldwide, 2005, p134
- ^Baker 2011. p. 95.
- ^Baker 2011. pp. 88–89.
- ^Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery, Imagining Language: An Anthology, MIT Press, 2001, p368
- ^Baker 2011. p. 88.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 254.
- ^Baker 2011. p. 258.
- ^'Seek Out Oddities Among The Already-Odd'. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
- ^Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut, Weiser, 1987
- ^'Bulldog Breed'. Discogs.
- ^'Sounds of Blakeness'. Fortean Times. Archived from the original on 12 April 2001.
- ^'Behemoth's Zos Kia Cultus'. Encyclopedia Metallum.
- ^'An Interview with Gavin Semple - Austin Osman Spare - Hermetic Library'. hermetic.com.
- ^ ab'The visions of Austin Osman Spare - Elephant and Castle'. Elephant and Castle. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 10 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Bibliography[edit]
- Ansell, Robert (2005). Borough Satyr: The Life And Art of Austin Osman Spare. London: Fulgur Limited. ISBN978-0953101689.
- Baker, Phil (2011). Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist. London: Strange Attractor Press. ISBN978-1907222016.
- Allen, Jonathan (2016). Lost Envoy: The Tarot Deck of Austin Osman Spare. London: Strange Attractor Press. ISBN978-1907222443.
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