Tarot in Culture Volume Two

Tarot in Culture (ed. Emily E. Auger) is a well-illustrated (260 illus.) two-volume multi-author anthology of papers on Tarot with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. Contributions range from original, in-depth, thoroughly documented studies of Tarot history, art, and literature to artists' statements and other primary source documents. Volume Two (526 pp) contributors include Ed Buryn, Julie Cuccia-Watts, Tabitha Dial, Joyce Goggin, Mary K. Greer, Bruce Hersch, Brian Johnson, Danny Jorgensen, Jeana Jorgensen, Carol S. Matthews, Robert Place, Christine Parkhurst, Casey J. Rudkin, Leslie Stratyner, Catherine Waitinas, Batya Susan Weinbaum, and Emily E. Auger. Tarot in Culture is both accessible to the Tarot student and of interest to scholars of other fields, including historians and theorists of art, esotericism, literature, the occult, and popular culture and genres.

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Emily E. Auger (Ph.D.) has graduate degrees in History in Art and English Literature from the University of Victoria and has taught art history in Canadian and American universities for over twenty years. Her monographs include The Way of Inuit Art: Aesthetics in and Beyond the Arctic (2005) and Tarot and Other Mediation Decks: History, Theory, Aesthetics (2004). She is a contributor to the anthology King Arthur in Popular Culture (2002) and has published papers on interlace and Alan Lee's Lord of the Rings' illustrations, genre and Pre-Raphaelitism in Lady Audley's Secret, and other subjects.