Looking for a Way to Make Your Halloween Artistic? This Spooky Deck of Tarot Cards by Salvador Dalí Should Do the Trick
So, Halloween has arrived, and you are looking to get weird with
some tarot cards, but you can’t find the right deck. Never fear:
we’ve got you. A deck of 78
tarot cards designed by Salvador Dalí for a James Bond movie has
been republished by Taschen just in time for October
31.
The deck was commissioned by the
US film producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli as a prop for the 1973
James Bond film Live and
Let Die, but for unknown reasons, the
cards never made the final cut. After the movie deal fell
through, Dalí continued to work on the cards, eventually releasing
the full set as a limited edition in 1984. Now, Taschen Books is
republishing the 78-strong deck as a boxed set.
Dalí melded his Surrealist
sensibility with tarot symbolism and references to Western art
history, plus his own deeply characteristic work. Deciphering all
the art-historical cameos in the cards is a fun party game in
itself. Dalí included himself as the Magician, and his wife
and muse, Gala, appears as the Empress. The Queen of
Cups is a riff on François Clouet’s portrait Elisabeth of
Austria, Queen of France (around 1571). Dalí gave the queen a
beard and mustache in the style of Marcel Duchamp’s altered
postcard of the Mona Lisa, L.H.O.O.Q (1919).
The box set is accompanied by a
booklet written by tarot expert Johannes Fiebig. He dissects each
card’s symbolism and offers handy advice on how to perform
readings. Dalí Tarot is available for €50 (around $55)
from Taschen
Books.
See a sample of the spooktacular
deck below.
Taschen’s Dalí Tarot. Deck of
78 tarot cards with booklet by Johannes Fiebig. Courtesy of Taschen
books.
Taschen’s Dalí Tarot. Deck of
78 tarot cards with booklet by Johannes Fiebig. Courtesy of Taschen
books.
Taschen’s Dalí Tarot. Deck of
78 tarot cards with booklet by Johannes Fiebig. Courtesy of Taschen
books.
Taschen’s Dalí Tarot. Deck of
78 tarot cards with booklet by Johannes Fiebig. Courtesy of Taschen
books.
Taschen’s Dalí Tarot. Deck of
78 tarot cards with booklet by Johannes Fiebig. Courtesy of Taschen
books.
Taschen’s Dalí Tarot. Deck of
78 tarot cards with booklet by Johannes Fiebig. Courtesy of Taschen
books.
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