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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 04:56 am |
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archangel
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I admit, I actually enjoy the majors in the Fergus Hall deck. Whimsical yet interpretive. However, the pips are just plain aweful.
While I've seen this deck rated one of the worst on some website (maybe Tarot Passages), I would be interested in this forum's input. I already own the deck so this is not an "evaluation" question. I'm just interested.
Cheers.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 01:57 pm |
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archangel wrote:
While I've seen this deck rated one of the worst on some website (maybe Tarot Passages), I would be interested in this forum's input.
The Fergus Hall deck should be seen as an important early tarot. The paintings were, apparently, made around 1973 and were commissioned for the Bond film. Fergus Hall is a minor Scottish artist whose Surrealist/Symbolist style made him part of the group of artists represented by the Portal Gallery in London. Somewhere I have their large catalogue which has a couple of illustrations of Hall's work.
It was an influential deck, partly because of the art style being quite original for 1970's tarot, and partly because of its exposure through the Bond film.
Yesterday, I bought the Italian edition of this deck Tarocchi Artistico Astrali 1975 and I already have the Spanish Tarot Parasicologico with the copyright date 1973, and of course the US Games edition.
I suspect a number of Japanese tarot artists were influenced by this deck.
Surely, tarot collectors view this as a significant publication in modern tarot. It is not a matter of how one personally responds to the artwork. That is merely subjective. What is objectively certain is Fergus Hall's place in the history of modern tarot.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 02:42 pm |
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I finally bought this deck earlier this year. I love the colours. My idea was to pick a card and then create a small piece of art using those colours in response--shake the old palette up a bit. It reminds me of the movie too, which brings back good memories.
Last edited on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 09:18 pm by Quidlimit
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 02:58 pm |
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this deck has a special place in my memories. it's one of the few decks which are featured (along with the RWS, Thoth, and Cat People)in the divinations volume (i think) of time-life's now OOP Mysteries of the Unexplained series, which introduced me to tarot as a kid. the majors especially have that nicely eerie feeling going, kinda like the feel of a dali landscape sans the melting things.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 03:41 pm |
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I bought this deck for someone back around 1981 or so.
I've always liked Fergus Hall's work.
It's very archetypal, and I've always wondered whether tarot caused or resulted from that.
I have the big Portal Gallery book.
And he did a great album cover for King Crimson.
Maybe I'll post a photo, if I can find it.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 03:51 pm |
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OnePotato wrote: I bought this deck for someone back around 1981 or so.
I've always liked Fergus Hall's work.
It's very archetypal, and I've always wondered whether tarot caused or resulted from that.
I have the big Portal Gallery book.
And he did a great album cover for King Crimson.
Maybe I'll post a photo, if I can find it.
He did an album cover for King Crimson? which one? I used to be a huge fan in high school..........I can't recall an album cover with his style....which one was it?
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 04:15 pm |
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OnePotato
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Papageno357 wrote
He did an album cover for King Crimson? which one? I used to be a huge fan in high school..........I can't recall an album cover with his style....which one was it?
It was a greatest hits double album.
"The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson" 1976
(import from the UK)
I got it around 1978-80, I think.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 09:05 pm |
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Good God. King Crimson.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 28th, 2007 10:28 pm |
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Ya, but then a couple of years later
"This Year's Model" came out,
and I've never been the same...:X
debra wrote: Good God. King Crimson.
:dude:
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29th, 2007 07:19 pm |
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thanks so much for those pictures..they're fabulous. take good care of that album!!
you know, it's really too bad that a lot of really wonderful LP album designs have been lost since CD's and downloadable tunes took over the market.
One of my favorite King Crimson album designs was Lizard
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| Posted: Sat Sep 29th, 2007 09:46 pm |
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The Planet Earth on the back cover of the album is very similar to the same planet on the World card of the tarot. The Earth has a bit more "hair" and a slightly different planetary or moon surface underneath, on the card.
Thanks for the link.
My King Crimson story: While boating with my parents when I was about 14, we met some people at a dock who had teenagers that were playing one of their albums--the one with the screaming red mouth. I'd never heard of the group or music and was completely clued out to the vibe.
"Twas ever thus!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30th, 2007 04:25 am |
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In the Court of the Crimson King was a double cover used world-wide as a surface for rolling joints. That was 1969. :P
*sigh*
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30th, 2007 06:31 am |
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we're all showing our age you know.........boomers flocking around a King Crimson thread LOL!! on a Tarot forum no less 
21st Century Schizoid Man..........and here we are
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