[Rezension von: Pamela Colman Smith: Artist, Feminist, and Mystic, by Elizabeth Foley O'Connor]
The artist Pamela Colman Smith is today best known as the illustrator of perhaps the world’s most famous set of tarot cards, first published in 1909. The so-called Rider-Waite deck makes reference to both the (male) publisher, William Rider, and the (male) esotericist who commissioned the deck, A. E...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Nova religio
Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 143-144 |
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| Summary: | The artist Pamela Colman Smith is today best known as the illustrator of perhaps the world’s most famous set of tarot cards, first published in 1909. The so-called Rider-Waite deck makes reference to both the (male) publisher, William Rider, and the (male) esotericist who commissioned the deck, A. E. Waite, but notably makes no reference to Colman Smith herself. As Elizabeth Foley O’Connor argues in her new biography, this omission "perfectly encapsulates Colman Smith’s gendered erasure from the cultural imagination, a type of misogyny that affected many women artists and writers at the turn of the twentieth century" (1). Amid the influence of fourth-wave feminism and a recent rise in publications on women and esotericism, it seems that Colman Smith is finally receiving the academic attention she deserves. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-8480 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nova religio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/nr.2023.27.1.143 |