TheLoracular Posted September 4, 2021 Posted September 4, 2021 I decided this might be the best place for this topic and my apologies if it hasn't been. Are there any good books or other resources that have been published the trace the historiography of modern tarot, especially from the 1930s to 2000+ ? So much is out there on the timeline until the 1930s and then it seems to stop and get summarized as "and then the tarot got popular again during counter-culture and we have Stuart Kaplan to thank for making modern tarot a Big Thing." XD I'm looking for things that go a lot more in-depth than that.
gregory Posted September 4, 2021 Posted September 4, 2021 I am fond of Cynthia Giles. Her book comes under two titles which is annoying: Tarot: History, Mystery and Lore, and Tarot: The Complete Guide. As far as I could see they are identical (I gave the second copy away when I realised this, so there may have been odd changes.) There's also Rachel Pollack's Complete Illustrated Guide to Tarot. I'm not sure exactly what you want - but if the art of tarot would interest, there is Adam McLean's course, which is now available free on line, after Bad People stole it and put it up on scribd. https://www.alchemywebsite.com/tarot/tarot_course.html
_R_ Posted October 13, 2021 Posted October 13, 2021 (edited) On 9/4/2021 at 7:22 PM, TheLoracular said: I'm looking for things that go a lot more in-depth than that. I'm afraid there is nothing in-depth on the matter, although it would make a good project. Mary Greer, as I recall, had compiled a timeline of publications, which ought to be floating around online somewhere, but aside from that there is not much post 1930s. On 9/4/2021 at 8:48 PM, gregory said: I am fond of Cynthia Giles. Her book comes under two titles which is annoying: Tarot: History, Mystery and Lore, and Tarot: The Complete Guide. As far as I could see they are identical I am too. Her book is very well done and well rounded. She does have a second book, The Tarot: Methods, Mastery, and More, which is not the same as the first book, and apparently she is writing a new one. Her newsletter is worth reading too. Edited October 13, 2021 by _R_ typo
DanielJUK Posted October 13, 2021 Posted October 13, 2021 49 minutes ago, _R_ said: I'm afraid there is nothing in-depth on the matter, although it would make a good project. Mary Greer, as I recall, had compiled a timeline of publications, which ought to be floating around online somewhere, but aside from that there is not much post 1930s. I think this is the timeline R was talking about by Mary- https://www.tarotpassages.com/mkgtimeline.htm My browser had an absolute security meltdown alert that it was unsafe as a page but it is safe and I added an exception to view it. It's just an old webpage and flagged these days by browsers.
_R_ Posted October 13, 2021 Posted October 13, 2021 That is indeed the timeline I was thinking of, and my browser also gives a security alert for some reason. Since Stuart Kaplan was mentioned in the first thread, it occurs to me that the bibliographies of his encyclopaedias would give further indications as far as publications go.
gregory Posted October 13, 2021 Posted October 13, 2021 Chrome is a pain in the butt. I don't use it except for sites that have been set up only to run on it. It says my partner has 97 compromised passwords. Given that he only has half a dozen, that seems unlikely ! I must get hold of Diane and see if she can update the certificate....
gregory Posted February 3, 2022 Posted February 3, 2022 The site really is down now - I will try and find Diane again. but it's on the wayback machine, thank goodness: https://web.archive.org/web/20190729092025/http://www.tarotpassages.com/mkgtimeline.htm
katrinka Posted February 3, 2022 Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, gregory said: The site really is down now - I will try and find Diane again. but it's on the wayback machine, thank goodness: https://web.archive.org/web/20190729092025/http://www.tarotpassages.com/mkgtimeline.htm That's a fairly comprehensive list, but she seems to have missed the University Books deck. (Or am I just not seeing it? More coffee...Oddly, she did include their edition of the PKT.) She included the Thoth and the Albano. I don't see the 1JJ Swiss, though, and I've read that it was available in the 60's-70's. I never saw anything "on the hoof" in the early 70's but the University Books RWS. I know from reading that other decks were available, I just didn't encounter them. You probably had to be someplace a lot hipper than where I lived, lol. But the University Books deck managed to penetrate a small town in Texas. 😁 You could get it in the mail. It's odd that it's the one everyone leaves out. It was in print from the late 50's until the mid 70's, I think. I don't know if Kaplan quashed it somehow or if something else happened, but it was the most readily available. Too many sources go straight to the USG edition and gloss over the others. Some of them (not this one, but more than a few) make it look like Kaplan came along and single-handedly revived Tarot. He didn't. Edited February 3, 2022 by katrinka
gregory Posted February 3, 2022 Posted February 3, 2022 (edited) I swear she had it on there. Check her blog, maybe. I am told Diane is on fartbook - does anyone have a way to ask her about the site on there ? Edited February 3, 2022 by gregory
Scandinavianhermit Posted July 31, 2024 Posted July 31, 2024 Insight Institute, Frank Lind and Rolla Nordic ought to be mentioned in a history about tarot after 1930. Alfred Douglas and Jo Sheridan designed the Sheridan Douglas Tarot in 1972, allegedly under the influence of Madeline Montalban. El Gran Tarot Esoterico was designed back in the 1970s or late 1960 under the influence of Eudes Picard's system of tarot, which differs significantly from both Papus', Golden Dawn's and Aleister Crowley's three systems of tarot.
gregory Posted July 31, 2024 Posted July 31, 2024 (edited) All those except the Gran Esoterico are in Mary Greer's timeline. And Picard is in there too. Here it is as a pdf, if you missed the link.MKGtimeline.pdf Edited July 31, 2024 by gregory
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