A Walking Flame by Ithell Colquhoun
Nearly 40 nearly forgotten essays on magic and esotericism by Ithell Colquhoun.Writer, artist, and wilfully dissident surrealist Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) invested her unique works with magical learning, esoteric lore, and a palpable sense of mystery. Despite having published widely on esoteric and occult topics during her lifetime, Colquhoun was never to produce a single book-length edition of her magical writings. As a result, many of her essays were lost or neglected.
A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Writings Of Ithell Colquhoun gathers nearly 40 texts by this unique artist and magical practitioner, and displays cohesively, and for the first time, the impressive breadth of Colquhoun's magical interests and expertise, and how these came to inform her singular works. Ranging from early encounters with the Kabbalah and esoteric color theory, to Celtic mysticism and alchemy, this volume, edited by Colquhoun scholar and folklorist Amy Hale, promises to shed a necessary light on an integral body of Colquhoun's thought that has remained occluded for too long.
Ithell Colquhoun was a painter and writer who was one of the best-known English women surrealists. A friend of Andrü¾Ž–”¼ Breton, she was also associated with Aleister Crowley. Her writing has been compared to that of William Blake and Walter de la Mare--the latter being a fan of her work. Richard Shillitoe is a biographer of Ithell Colquhoun and an expert on her writing and art. He runs the website www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781913689773 |
| ISBN 10 | 1913689778 |
| Title | A Walking Flame |
| Author | Ithell Colquhoun |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Strange Attractor Press |
| Year published | 2025-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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