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Tarot design by Grandville
19th century French illustrator, J.J. Grandville was known as the “Father of Surrealism”. Grandville had a strong influence on artists such as Tenniel, illustrator of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (so why JJ? - don’t ask me) was born on Sept 15, 1803 and died in Paris on Mar 17, 1874. Gérard was a French caricaturist, fantasist, illustrator and graphic artist noted for his inventive political and social satire. Like many of the famous caricaturists of the period, Grandville worked for Charles Philipon, contributing drawings to the periodicals La Caricature and Le Charivari. His satirical series included Métamorphoses du Jour (Present-day Metamorphoses, 1829), Un Autre Monde (Another World, 1844), and Scènes de la Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux (1842 - Public and Private Life of Animals). He created the illustrations for Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1838), Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1840) and one of several different French translations of Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1848). Grandville’s fantastic part-human, part-animal figures probably influenced Sir John Tenniel’s illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Bibliography: Appelbaum, Stanley, ed., Bizarreries and Fantasies of Grandville (1974). Take a look at the reviews of Stanley Appelbaum’s book Bizarreries and Fantasies of Grandville on Amazon.com to get a feel for Grandville.
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Contributor's Note
This is an edited version of a post on my www.tarotstuff.com blog, which explores the art, the history, the card game and a little of the mysticism surrounding the tarot cards. At the time of writing, it only has three posts, but I promise more in the same vein.
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