Art, Symbol & Imagination
Illusion and Truth: Alpha and Omega
A small figure bends below an immense oval enclosure of flowing curtains and masks. Books, geometric floor lines and crowded objects fill the foreground. Spare’s closing text identifies Knowledge as the jester who overturns the feast of illusion and reveals the world, the flesh and being.
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Austin Osman Spare. "Illusion and Truth: Alpha and Omega" [editorial title]. In Earth Inferno, Austin Osman Spare. Undated supplied digital facsimile, undated edition. Source scan leaf 29. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/spare-earth-inferno-illusion-and-truth
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From Spare’s sequence of drawings and allegorical verse first published in 1905. The complete reproduced page, including its frame, caption and ornamental details, is retained.
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Austin Osman Spare. Illusion and Truth: Alpha and Omega. Earth Inferno. Scan leaf 29. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/spare-earth-inferno-illusion-and-truth