Vudu Cartography.
London: Fulgur Limited, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Landscape format octavo. xii + 175pp. Original fine brown buckram with black lettering to spine, and black device to upper board, lavishly illustrated in colour, colour frontispiece, full colour endpapers, printed in red and black throughout. From the Bibliothèque de Verseau series. Edition limited to 804 copies, this copy being one of the 708 clothbound, hand-numbered copies. "Vudu Cartography" is a work, previously unpublished, from the school of Michael Bertiaux, and includes more than 130 new vudu images by the artist, all printed in full color on archival paper. The first entirely new book by Michael Bertiaux for more than 20 years. Vudu Cartography explores the mysteries of Vudu through chants, oracles, seances and a symbolic system of images – all connected by a descriptive narrative. Drawn from his experiences in Haiti, Bertiaux’s own evocative voudon ‘art brut’ images create a map for those regions of ‘invisible power’, giving the reader access to the ‘mysteries and hiddenesses of an exotic theology, with its spiritist twists and turns and esoteric spaces'. Appears as new, thus near Fine in near Fine dust jacket. Out-of-print. Item #67572
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