LiteraTarot America
Collaborative deck where artists interpret major American and contemporary literature classics.
by Assorted · Museo dei Tarocchi · 2008
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The record
Each year the Italian Tarot Museum hosts a collaborative Tarot project, with a different theme. For 2008 the theme, LiteraTarot, was dedicated to great classics of literature, either contemporary or from the past. The goal was to take a recognizable element from the work of literature and meld it with the traditional meaning and symbolism of each card. This was a wonderful, large scale project in that multiple continents were represented. Arnell Ando hosted the deck for the United States, with other decks coming from Asia, Europe (due out in early 2009), and Oceania (this deck, hosted by Fern Mercier of New Zealand, is already out). Each deck is a Limited Edition (300 copies), Major Arcana project involving the host and 21 other Tarot artists. Arnell has created a separate page on her artist site, where we can see the artists, and learn a bit about them, and their previous work (as well as see scans of the complete deck). In fall of 2007 Arnell and her husband visited the Museo Dei Tarocchi. On her site she has a link to a journal about her visit, along with photos of the building and the people. With an artists eye, she was awed by the 400 year old stone building, by the museum
The cards
