Author: Clark, Richard Grenvile.
Title: APOCALYPSE IN ENGLAND: A Critical Study of Frederick Carter.
Description: London: Jerusalem Press, 2024. Limited to 400 Copies, each copy hand-numbered. A FINE PREMIUM CLOTH COPY, sewn, splendid color plate section, with illustrated endpapers, tailbands, foil-blocked boards and an illustrated dust jacket. who mixed with many of the key figures of the British Occult and Decadent milieu, most notably, Austin Osman Spare and Arthur Machen, author and Golden Dawn member. Carter was a devotee of art as expressed through the power of the subconscious, and his experimentation with automatic drawing between 1915 and 1924, along with fellow symbolist Austin Osman Spare, confirms his deep interest in the method, which he hoped would prove a means of releasing suppressed associations and images from the subliminal. Also, his deep interest in alchemy, and all aspects of the supernatural and occult, led him to produce works of sublime esoteric symbolism, especially his masterwork, The Dragon of the Alchemists. Clark's volume features unprecedented access to the artist/writer's rich personal archive of diaries, memoirs, sketchbooks, and artworks, and provides first-hand encounters with many figures from the esoteric London circles of Bohemian artists, writers, publishers and intellectuals, including a dinner party with Aleister Crowley, which ends in a venomous spat between the Beast and his jilted lover; a visit to Austin Spare to meet W.H. Davies, the Welsh poet, and a drug experiment with George Raffalovich, Crowley's friend and disciple. Richly-illustrated throughout with unpublished examples of Carter's exquisite line-drawings, etchings of London, and mystical woodcuts, and over 300 black and white illustrations. 380 pages, indexed. Small 4to.

Keywords: sutomatic drawing Austin Osman Spare magic occult Carter surrealism