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POSTPONED! Apocalypse in England -Richard Grenville
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|London
Unfortunately, this event will be postponed for a forthcoming future date. Our apologies! Finally the life-story of a neglected and fascinating artist who mixed with key figures of the British Occult and Decadent milieu can be told…
Time & Location
Date and time is TBD
London, 19-21 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ, UK
About the event
***POSTPONED***
Unfortunately, this event will be postponed for a forthcoming future date. Our apologies!
Until now, the mystical quester Frederick Carter has been merely a footnote in other biographies, notably those of Austin Osman Spare and Arthur Machen who he knew and worked with. Carter’s oeuvre was formed by a plurality of influences and interactions extending to the occult, philosophy, and religion. Now he moves centre-stage to have his story told and his achievements accessed.
With unprecedented access to the artist/writer’s rich personal archive of diaries, memoirs, sketchbooks, and artworks, the author guides us on a picaresque journey from Carter’s beginnings in Yorkshire, through the ateliers and red-light district of Paris with Holbrook Jackson and George Raffalovich, to the esoteric London circles of Bohemian artists, writers, publishers and intellectuals.
This book is unique in providing many colourful firsthand close-up encounters with charismatic figures previously known from afar. Notably, a dinner…