March 1, 2010

The Game of Marseille

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8 comments:

  1. Holy crap. Absolutely fabulous (not the TV show, though that's lovely, too). I love the Hegel, Freud, and Sade cards.

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  2. beautifully elegant line work. What a time to have lived in... great back story on this one. where did you get these?

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  3. Nice cards and intertesting story behind them. Great stuff!

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  4. What does it signify when Sade is overlaid with Freud? Thanks for posting these wonderful energy carrying images.

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  5. Interesting! thanks for sharing, very cool cards.

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  6. Thanks for your comments. I found these in Passeron book, which has some not-as-well-known images mixed in with the famous ones.

    ShigePekin just alerted me that he featured these back in Sept. 2009. So go here to see more.

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  7. 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!

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  8. i would love to have a set of cards like those.

    and 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

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