Paradise Found: The Visionary Art of Amy Zerner - Hardcover

Farber, Monte; Slivka, Rose; Zerner, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 188520311X ISBN 13: 9781885203113

Publisher: Tuttle Pub, 1995

Synopsis

This gorgeous coffee table art book is Monte's 20 year retrospective of Amy's unique artistic style. One of the world's leading collage artists and a recipient of the prestigious NEA award for fine art, Amy has created more than 500 works of art inspired by her study and personal application of ancient sacred teachings. Paradise Found's extensive text explains the story portrayed and philosophy behind each piece, serving as a useful guide to those on their own journey to paradise. 125 color plates, museum bound cloth/gold stamping.

About this title

About the Author

Amy Zerner's art and tapestries have been shown in more than eighty one-woman gallery and museum shows across the United States and Europe. She and Monte Farber are the authors of the international success, THE ENCHANTED TAROT, which has sold more than 100,000 copies in five languages. Together, Zerner and Farber have become the world's foremost designers of what they call "spiritual power tools," with more than a million copies of their unique books in print. Their other titles include KARMA CARDS, THE ENCHANTED TAROT, THE INSTANT TAROT READER, THE PSYCHIC CIRCLE, THE ORACLE OF THE GODDESS, and CUPID CARDS.

From the Back Cover

PARADISE FOUND is about the evolution of the unique artistic style of Amy Zerner, one of the leading collage artists in the world. Zerner uses found objects to make her magic collages explode with images of the sublime, but usually unseen, worlds and energies that surround and support us all, realms of Paradise that are the origin of beauty. In 1986, her pioneering use of collage was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, which awarded her a major fellowship in the category of painting, the first and only such honor granted to an artist working in fabric. For twenty years, Zerner has used her prodigious artistic talent to create more than five hundred works of art, all of which embody and convey the inspiration and healing power she has experienced through her study and personal application of ancient sacred teachings.

Reviews

Textile artist Zerner combines fabrics, embroideries and found objects into lushly imaginative New Age collages intended as signposts to spiritual growth and healing. Freely synthesizing myths, archetypal symbols, fairy tales, Greek, Hindu, Egyptian, Aztec and Native American cosmologies, she conjures sacred spaces; depicts goddesses, gods and guardian angels; and creates surreal dreamscapes of primeval grottoes, sanctuaries and utopias. Her dense, multilayered visions are at once highly personal and populist. Zerner and Farber, her husband, have previously collaborated on The Enchanted Tarot, The Alchemist and other bestselling books that aim to make ancient wisdom accessible and relevant to modern life. This latest volume, with 85 color plates amplified by Farber's extensive commentaries, is filled with amazing images that beckon readers to open their minds, hearts and senses to unseen realities.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Tuttle Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 188520311X
• ISBN 13: 9781885203113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204