with great pleasure (and a little late!) out a nice review that appeared on the popular site neopagan
The Reef and the Craftsigned by Arthios sincere appreciation that I thank you for references to our book.
UPUI - The Art of Witch
I bought this book drawn from two curators, Sarah Bernini and Andrea Armed and my confidence has been amply rewarded.
I found it to be transported to the magical dream world of an artist incredibly visionary and steadfast in its certainties, capable of making real, everyday experiences that many are either a goal or to reach a kind of self-delusion.
NEAC is not a simple book, easy to fit, we can safely say that is not a traditional art book, but it is full of references and images of the works of Nicholas Mulè it is not a traditional biography, but tells the history and evolution of the artist until his rebirth in the Witch Upui it is not a treatise on Magic, but it opens the door to better understand the magic that surrounds us.
So what?
I call it a 'symbolic journey experience, mainly because the structure of the book set by Sarah and Andrew, the first guides us to knowledge of the artist as a human being, then moved to his past life until we have a complete picture of the person behind Upui the Witch, and only after giving us all this wealth of information "biography" let us begin to analyze the symbols in his works that, while coming in what we might call "a classic symbols" are present in such quantities and a such a variety of lines to be innovative and original.
The difficulty for those who are about to read this book is to be able to accept the experiences of the artist for "faith" in fact all his art is based on his dream experiences, its affinity with the spirits and its feminine sensibility.
These same experiences we open up a world full of symbols, detached from what which is considered "normal" by most people, but that gives us an insight on the soul of an artist truly innovative.
The book continues by presenting a series of appendices bets not only on his work, but mainly on the soul and the motivations that lie behind his designs.
The only thing I, personally, I found it difficult to use are the notes, rather than footnotes, are collected in a separate chapter, making it a little cumbersome to use. However
praise and honor to those who have taken the trouble to bring order to a dream world so complex ... Thank you very
Arthios
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