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Tarot de Mars      2012 Quentin Faucompre      France                                                   Art Medium: Screen prints in four colours, printed using halftones. Description: Le Dernier Cri (the "final cry") is a Marseilles based collective of illustrators. They publish comic books, silk screen prints and various other items, some of a visceral and excoriating nature which are so challenging that many people are repelled by the strong imagery. They have issued two other tarots, the Tarot Corrumpe and Tarot Tare. This group of primarily European artists seem to adopt the postmodern stance of subverting images in a playful though often penetraing way. For example, in the Magician, we see a rabbit-eared stage magician making himself appear out of a box. In Strength, a human headed lion places her head within the jaws of a lion-headed human.