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Alchemy

Alchemy The Secret Art - Art + Imagination

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Paperback (04 Feb 2013)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This new and completely redesigned edition creates a colourful and vibrant guide to the secret art. Klossowski de Rola elucidates the mysterious language and polyvalent symbolism from a variety of perspectives - practical, spiritual, elemental and historical - and explains how the true alchemist differs from the modern chemist and the false practitioner. Gold is only a by-product and emblem of the Great Work of the alchemist. The latter part of the book comprises the full text of a seventeenth-century exposition upon an alchemist's dream-poem, and five richly illustrated 'Themes' sections, reproducing full sequences of alchemical thought, art and paraphernalia.

Book information

ISBN: 9780500810552
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Imprint: Thames and Hudson
Pub date:
Edition: New edition
DEWEY: 540.112
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 320g
Height: 199mm
Width: 145mm
Spine width: 13mm