Artwork Tarots items available No 29 Tarot of Black Mountain No 25 Original Wirth Tarot No 23 Erotic Tarot No 22 Goth Tarot No 21 Tarot ng Daigdig sa Balintataw No 20 Javanese Folktales Tarot No 19 Taro by Ithell Colquhoun No 14 Son Tarot No 11 Quantum Tarot No 8 Rotin Tarot No 6 Corneal Edema Tarot No 4 Sylph Tarot Artwork Tarots out of print No 1 Alchemical Emblem tarot No 2 Marie-Claude Purro No 3 Alchemical Wedding Tarot No 5 Tarot of the Sidhe No 9 Aleph Tarot No 13 Fortuna's Wheel Tarot No 15 Phantomwise Tarot No 16 Lebanese Tarot No 17 Arto Tarot No 18 Diary of a Broken Soul No 24 Fialko Tarot No 26 W. T. Horton Tarot No 27 Greater Mysteries Tarot No 28 Golden Serpent Tarot Artwork Tarots temporarily unavailable No 7 Chalice Tarot No 10 Tarot Obscura No 12 Ascension Tarot How the Artwork tarots are made Study Course the Artwork of modern Tarot Tarot Database project Tarot collectors Forum on tarot collecting Other sites Other tarot publishers Other websites Tarot dealers Tarot Weblog Tarot decks for sale    Facebook page

Study Course on the Artwork of Modern Tarot by Adam McLean Modern tarot designs began from about the 1960's and there have been well over 2000 tarots decks published in the last fifty years. With such a mass of material available it is very difficult for people to get a overall picture of exactly what is going on in this exciting world of tarot symbolism. There now exist such a wide variety of tarots, from those designed by major artists, through a spectrum down to simple promotional decks given away free in magazines. All of these provide a window onto our contemporary culture. They are like the emblem books of the 16th and 17th centuries, communicating universal and deep ideas within a seemingly simple framework. Tarot designs are usually the work of enthusiasts and their artwork reveals clearly their intentions and the way they think about the world. There are mythological, shamanistic, magical, psychological, dark and serious, light and playful tarots. There are tarots celebrating all sorts of interests, addressing various issues. There are regional tarots in which an artist tries to locate tarot imagery within their own culture or region, tarots in the style of various earlier artists and so on. What this course is not about: This course will not teach you anything about cartomancy or fortune telling using tarot cards - there are a multitude of courses and books doing that This course will not teach you anything about tarot reading This course does not deal with esoteric interpretations of tarot - there are already so many books on this theme This course does not teach the early history and origins of tarot, it deals with modern tarot only What this course does attempt to teach: This course aims to give you a wide appreciation of the artwork of modern tarot card designs This course will guide you through the maze of the many different modern tarot and provide you with some tools for understanding, analysing them and placing them in their context within the tarot tradition This course will help people who are beginning to build a collection by showing the relationships between different decks and the ways in which they can be grouped and linked together thematically This course parallels Adam McLean's other courses on alchemical symbolism and adopts a similar methodology. He tries to find what is actually there in the image or symbol without projecting an external interpretation upon it. His stance towards the artwork of modern tarot is not based on personal taste, but instead in a non-judgemental way he tries to explore and discover the delights of the artwork in its own terms. Adam McLean has extensively studied alchemical, emblematic, and esoteric symbolism for nearly 40 years. He has created seven study courses on alchemical symbolism and texts, and produced over 1000 coloured emblems. He has now turned his attention to modern tarot and his course is based on his own extensive collection of over 2100 tarots. This is not an intellectually challenging or primarily scholarly course, though it is written by a scholar of symbolism, emblems and allegory. Instead the course is designed as a kind of exploration of the world of modern tarots. At the end of this course you are guaranteed to have a wide appreciation of the many facets of modern tarot. Lesson 1: The orientation of this course Lesson 2: The guises of the tarot Fool Lesson 3: The different types of tarot - Purposes and intentions Lesson 4: Tarot with a purpose - Some issue decks Lesson 5: Tarot with a purpose - Some promotional decks Lesson 6: The different types of tarot - Themed decks Lesson 7: Shakespeare themed decks Lesson 8 : Cat themed Tarots Lesson 9 : Gothic themed Tarots Lesson 10 : Tarots printed in books Lesson 11 : Tarots based on books Lesson 12 : The Death Card Lesson 13 : Magical Tarots Lesson 14 : Round Tarots Lesson 15 : Alchemical Tarots Lesson 16 : Some further perspectives to consider Lesson 17 : Regional tarots - Japanese Lesson 18 : Regional tarots - Chinese Lesson 19 : Art Medium - Watercolour Lesson 20 : Art Medium - Coloured pencil Lesson 21 : Regional tarots - Russian Lesson 22 : Erotic themed Tarots Lesson 23 : European Art Tarots Lesson 24 : Naive tarots Lesson 25 : Conclusion Adam McLean is well known as a researcher into alchemy and expert in emblematic symbolism as well as an accomplished artist. He has created seven study courses on alchemy related matters, and his Foundation course on alchemical symbolism has been taken by over 800 people. He has now turned his attention to the artwork of modern tarot and in this new course he will give insights into modern tarot art, and help people to analyse and contextualise this fascinating emblematic material. Please note these lessons are copyright © Adam McLean, and no part may be reproduced or distributed in any form (including the Internet) without the permission of Adam McLean.