I purchased these cards in paris in 1994 in a small book/print/card shop in face of cathedrale de st. germaine (directly across the boulevard behind the bus stop). the shop is still there but I forget the name, tons of treasures there and worth the trip!
Holy crap. Absolutely fabulous (not the TV show, though that's lovely, too). I love the Hegel, Freud, and Sade cards.
ReplyDeletebeautifully elegant line work. What a time to have lived in... great back story on this one. where did you get these?
ReplyDeleteNice cards and intertesting story behind them. Great stuff!
ReplyDeleteWhat does it signify when Sade is overlaid with Freud? Thanks for posting these wonderful energy carrying images.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! thanks for sharing, very cool cards.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments. I found these in Passeron book, which has some not-as-well-known images mixed in with the famous ones.
ReplyDeleteShigePekin just alerted me that he featured these back in Sept. 2009. So go here to see more.
I purchased these cards in paris in 1994 in a small book/print/card shop in face of cathedrale de st. germaine (directly across the boulevard behind the bus stop). the shop is still there but I forget the name, tons of treasures there and worth the trip!
ReplyDeletei would love to have a set of cards like those.
ReplyDeleteand you can preview a Musée de Marseille publication that deals with the cards here:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=htGLmO-SH0MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22le+jeu+de+marseille%22&source=bl&ots=TJP5f6Mcv1&sig=jGUt0dZ-7hFD_mzrVuEr0muwCHk&hl=en&ei=ClCOS82NJsP6lgeQjqSeDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false