In this exquisitely designed volume, the mystical hierarchies of heaven and hell, and the ranking of seraphs, cherubim, archangels and other angelic manifestations are explained, in the first comprehensive survey of one of the most powerful and ever-present symbols in our collective vision. 95 four-color, 30 two-color, and 30 black-and-white illustrations.
Malcolm Godwin (aka Carder and Sw. Anand Yatri) was born in 1936. He came late to writing as originally he was a kinetic and constructionist artist exhibiting at such galleries as Fondation Maeght,Provence, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Kunsthalle, Köln, "The Kinetic Show"at the Hayward Gallery, London as well as well as creating a large kinetic artwork powered by a fuel cell at the British Pavilion at Expo67, Montreal. Works are owned by the Arts Council, The Contemporary Arts Society, the Tate Gallery, London, Glasgow Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art Philadelphia and the Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis. Worked with the architect, Theo Crosby, at Pentagram and contributed to "How to Play the Environment Game" exhibition at the Hayward Gallery and the Penguin book of the same name.
Was commissioned by the architect Colin St. John Wilson to create a preliminary survey of the originally proposed site in Bloomsbury for the new British Library. Iit might have had some effect on changing the Library's final location!
Invited to give a major retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in the East End of London, the artist instead chose to fly to India, confident that his mystic experiences would flower into enlightenment within a few hours of landing. He still awaits that supreme outcome of his quest for truth 34 years later.
He lived in India for seven years designing and helping to publish the books of the Indian mystic, Osho, and compiling a biography of the mystic's life up until 1980 called "The Sound of Running Water." After a year wandering Europe and then three years in the USA, mostly on a very un-mystical pipe and sewer crew, he and his designer wife, Magdalena, settled in Tuscany. There, they co-founded a publishing company called Labyrinth, for which they designed and illustrated such books as Stephen Hawking's "The Illustrated A Brief History of Time" and "Universe in a Nutshell" as well as writing and illustrating four original best sellers, one of which is "The Holy Grail."
In 1996 the design and illustration partnership called Moonrunner was founded. Apart from designing many works including "Mapping the Mind" by Rita Carter, and "Grandmere" by David Roosevelt, many computer generated illustrations have been created for such books as "The Ancestors Tale" by Richard Dawkins and "Universe" by Dorling Kindersley, The mainly cosmological and neurological illustrations are for magazines including The National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, Kijk ,Welt der Wunder, The New York Times, and Mother Jones. The company is now venturing into translating earlier physical works into ebooks, as well as creating original graphic cartoons and digital apps for platforms like Kindle and the iPad.
