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Summary:

"Pamela Colman Smith's illustrations for the Rider Waite tarot deck are known to millions, but her work took her from art galleries to salons with luminaries of the English suffrage movement, the Irish literary revival, and friendships with Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker, and W. B. Yeats among many others"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• 1. Naming and Identity: Family, Miniature Theater, and Jamaican Residence
• 2. Forging a Path: Critical Reception, Key Influences, and Emergence as an Artist
• 3. Becoming Pixie: Friendship, Synaesthesia, and The Green Sheaf
• 4. Art on Her Own Terms: Anansi Stories, the Green Sheaf Press, and "Music Pictures"
• 5. Feminist Symbolic Art: Tarot Designs, Suffrage Posters, and Representations of Women.

Author/Creator:

O'Connor, Elizabeth Foley , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Pamela Colman Smith: artist, feminist, & mystic [by O'Connor, E.F.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Pamela Colman Smith [by O'Connor, E.F.] ([Clemson] : Clemson University Press, [2021] — ISBN 9781949979404; LCCN 2021005816)

Subjects:

Smith, Pamela Colman — Criticism and interpretation

Smith, Pamela Colman

Criticism and interpretation

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xvi, 302 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm

Physical Characteristics:

portrait; illustration

Call Numbers:

N6537.S617 O29 2021

ISBNs:

9781949979398 (hardcover)
1949979393 (hardcover)
9781949979404 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021005815

OCLC Numbers:

1237651014