Hundley is the editor of a series of books from Taschen, entitled The Library of Esoterica, that explore the visual history of the arcane. "It's a blank canvas with some parameters, in that these images that you're creating need to have some corresponding meaning." "Tarot is really what you make of it, and that's why it's such an amazing medium for artists," author and editor Jessica Hundley tells BBC Culture.
The symbols of tarot have been adapted and transformed hundreds of times over to reflect the time and culture in which they are created. Look at tarot decks across the last 600 years and you'll get a crash course in art history, from Renaissance Italy through to Art Nouveau and Art Deco, to Pop Art and digital collage. She references the practice in her poem Daddy ("With my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck/ And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack"), while The Hanging Man takes its name from a tarot card.īut tarot does not only inspire artists and designers – it's a powerful art form in its own right.
Plath wrote in her journals of her wish to get better at reading tarot – but it played an important part in her art, too. The Tarot de Marseille deck was a 24th birthday gift from Hughes. The symbol that spread around the world The rings sold for a respectable $38,000 (£28,000) – but this was mere pocket change compared to the most sought after item in the lot: Plath's personal tarot deck. It included intimate love letters, recipe cards, a rolling pin, family photo albums and her and Ted Hughes's gold wedding bands. Earlier this summer, a collection of Sylvia Plath's personal items went up for sale at Sotheby's.
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