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Description of  Austin Osman Spare (Revised & Expanded Edition) The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist [Audiobook]

Absorbed in occultism and sorcery, voyaging into inner dimensions, and surrounding himself with cats and familiar spirits, he continued to produce extraordinary art while developing a magical philosophy of pleasure, obsession, and the subjective nature of reality. Today Spare is both forgotten and famous, a cult figure whose modest life has been much mythologized since his death. This groundbreaking biographical study offers wide-ranging insights into Spare's art, mind, and world, reconnecting him with the art history that ignored him and exploring his parallel London a bygone place of pub pianists, wealthy alchemists, and monstrous owls.