Pam Grossman

Jessica Hundley

A spellbinding journey through the global history of witchcraft, the third volume in The Library of Esoterica follows this magickal tradition from its ancient roots to its modern incarnations. Through more than 400 artworks, and revelatory essays and interviews with modern practitioners, Witchcraft chronicles a cathartic evolution, from the...

Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica

Johannes Fiebig

Marcella Kroll

Trace the hidden history of Tarot in the first volume from TASCHEN's Library of Esoterica, a series documenting the creative ways we strive to connect to the divine. Artfully arranged according to the sequencing of the Major and Minor Arcana, this visual compendium gathers more than 500 cards and works of original art from around the world in...

Tarot

Alexandra Redgrave

A trusty companion for the slow and thoughtful home and the inner utilitarian in us all, The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide: How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster and Master Other Simple Pleasures allows you to experience the singular satisfaction of doing it yourself. Each project, whether caring for cast iron or planting with the seasons, is supplemented with expert tips to inspire and empower. Organized into five sections—Kitchen, Outdoors, Home, Gardening, and Grooming—the comprehensive guide features detailed instructions and original artwork for tasks both simple, such as brewing the perfect cup of coffee, and exploratory, such as fording a stream and reading the sky. Accompanying the how-tos are tried-and-true products selected from the Kaufmann Mercantile store that not only help one get the job done but are also a joy to use. As editors Alexandra Redgrave and Jessica Hundley describe in the introduction, "This book began out of a curiosity for how we grow, build, and craft the world around us. We discovered that there's an art to a simple task done well - it calls for consideration and creativity, the rolling up of sleeves, and the digging into of details. It means getting messy, and, perhaps, messing up. In our world of modern convenience, doing it yourself is immensely rewarding. And so, consider the book in your hands as a starting point. We hope you, like us, find inspiration in these pages to experiment, to investigate, to create, and to enlighten your everyday."

How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster, and Master Other Simple Pleasures

The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide

Thunderwing

BrujeríA. la Biblioteca de Esoterismo

Walter Hopps

Dennis Hopper

Tony Shafrazi

The 1960s, in all their turbulence and revelation, have been documented many times over; but the photographic recollections of actor/artist/director Hopper have set themselves decidedly apart. These images capture the same energy and intensity that mark Hopper's career.

Dennis Hopper. Ediz. Inglese

J. C. Gabel

Beyond the Beyond: Music from the Films of David Lynch explores the use of music and sound in Lynch's films, as well as his own original music, and draws on the director's personal archives of photographs and ephemera from Eraserhead onward. From his early short films made in Philadelphia in the 1960s up through more recent feature films like Inland Empire (2006), legendary artist and director David Lynch (born 1946) has used sound to build mood, subvert audience expectations and create new layers of affective meaning.

Music from the Films of David Lynch

Beyond the Beyond

The fourth volume in The Library of Esoterica explores the historic roots of plants in myth and magickal practices. Through essays, interviews, and more than 400 images--from ancient Egyptian stonework to Victorian botanical art, to contemporary works celebrating nature -- Plant Magick chronicles the symbiotic relationship between plants and people.

Plant Magick. The Library of Esoterica

Polly Parsons

A portrait of the late country-rock performer, co-written by his daughter, draws on unpublished letters and interviews with artists whose work was inspired by Parsons, in an account that explores his lasting influence on music today. Original.

An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons

Grievous Angel

Forged by fire and fluid, and the slow, heavy, press of the earth's surface'crystals are nature at the most miraculous, science as it veers into the mystical.The debut book in our New New Age Series, Crystals provides an elegant page-by-page overview of the healing, emotional and spiritual attributes, of nearly 50 different stones.Exhaustively researched and featuring stunning original photography, Crystals provides readers with a concise and modern guide, a new look at an enduring and ancient practice.

NEW NEW AGE SERIES

Hardcover, 148 pages 9 × 12 in. 22.86 × 30.48 cm. Pheromone Hotbox, the first monograph from Los Angeles-based photographer Amanda Charchian (born 1988), brings together work shot by the artist between 2012 and 2015. Working around the idea of the "Pheromone Hotbox" that occurs when a woman photographs another woman--a title Charchian lent to a 2014 group exhibition at Stephen Kasher Gallery in New York--Charchian photographs her female artist friends in dramatic locations across the globe, including in Iceland, France, Costa Rica, Morocco, Israel, and Cuba. Simultaneously dreamy and erotically charged, Charchian's photographs capture the intensity and intimacy of the interaction between artist and model. In addition to exhibiting her fine art photography in galleries internationally, Charchian is also well known for her fashion and commercial work, which has appeared in numerous international publications, including Vogue, Huffington Post, i-D, Interview, Garage, and Purple. Edited by J.C. Gabel and Jessica Hundley Designed by Brian Roettinger Split release with Dilettante Paper Hat & Beard Press #2

Pheromone Hotbox

"Belladonna of Sadness," the final film in the adult-oriented "Animerama" trilogy, is one of the great forgotten masterpieces of Japanese anime. Loosely inspired by "La Sorciere," Jules Michelet's 1862 history of witchcraft and the occult, "Belladonna of Sadness" tells the story of a young woman who makes a pact with the devil to exact revenge after being raped and driven from her home. This brief synopsis, however, does no justice to the visual spectacle of the film, which proceeds as a series of still images flashing onscreen. Spectacular watercolor paintings by Kuni Fukai marry the art nouveau artifice of artists like Aubrey Beardsley to '60s psychedelia; the film's North American distributor, Cinelicious Pics, describes it as "equal parts J.R.R. Tolkien and gorgeous, explicit Gustav Klimt-influenced eroticism." A legendary cult classic, "Belladonna of Sadness" has never been officially released in the United States--until now. This publication accompanies the restored film's North American release. Beautifully produced in a colorful, large-format edition, this volume provides an indispensable companion to this incredible animated masterpiece, including script outtakes, stills and other ephemera from the film, a text about the film's painstaking restoration and interviews conducted with the film's illustrator, composer, and director Eiichi Yamamoto. The first printing of the book will include a Blu-ray disc of the 4k restored version of the feature film, with bonus features including interviews with the director, composer and illustrator of the film, original trailer and more. Once the first printing of the book is sold out, the Blu-ray will not be included with any future printings.

Jessica Hundley

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