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Hah, Mr. Crowley was a total troll. But he was an artist's and interlectuarl's mystic, so his tarot was specifically designed to look like it belong to an upper
by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Hah, Mr. Crowley was a total troll. But he was an artist's and interlectuarl's mystic, so his tarot was specifically designed to look like it belong to an upper-middle class practitioner, rather than a commoner, with traditional but incomplete understadning of the Art. He basically wanted to elevate Tarot reading from the palmistry tent at fairs to the salons of the nouveau rich, so he chose art and interpretations that would appeal to that kind of person.
A troll and a real marketing genius, I think.
- aasasd 5y agoOoh, this does remind me that I need to figure out mass-culture and highbrow design values before modernism, since I indeed might apply modern thinking where it doesn't belong, sometimes. I vaguely know that it was ‘more stuff = rich’ in the middle ages, leading to the ridiculous outfits of the aristocracy, but not sure when it switched to pure modernist ‘lots of empty space = rich’ (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/67/87/56/678756c714c2bd405964b7f320776437.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/67/87/56/678756c714c2bd405964...).