Kabbalah and Alchemy: An Essay on Common Archetypes [Hardcover]

Arturo Schwarz (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0765761580 | ISBN-13: 978-0765761583 | Publication Date: November 28, 2000

This remarkable and groundbreaking study explores the author's view that there is a close correspondence between the basic tenets of alchemy and those of Jewish esoteric tradition, generally known as Kabbalah.

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Arturo Schwarz is an art historian, an essayist, and a poet who has studied Kabbalah and alchemy in depth since 1945. He has lectured at leading universities in Italy and across the globe, as well as in art academies and museums, and has created major art exhibitions and organized anthological and retrospective exhibitions. Mr. Schwarz has published over thirty books, in addition to twenty-eight collections of poems, standard monographs on Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Mordechai Ardon, and essays on Dadaism, Surrealism, Kabbalah, tantrism, alchemy, and prehistoric and tribal art. Arturo Schwarz is a member of the Board of Governors of the Tel Aviv University, of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The Senate of the Tel Aviv University conferred on him the Degree of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa in recognition of his outstanding contributions in te field of art studies. In 1998 the Italian President awarded Arturo Schwarz with a gold medal for outstanding merits in the fields of Culture and the Arts.

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• Hardcover: 198 pages
• Publisher: Jason Aronson (November 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765761580
• ISBN-13: 978-0765761583
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Kabbalah and Alchemy: An Essay on Common Archetypes (Hardcover)

This book is far more than just a study that clarifies the true nature of both esoteric systems. As Schwarz writes, "Kabbalah and alchemy were instruments of an initiatory form of knowledge that sought to illuminate the way toward liberation from life's contingencies and contradictions." Schwarz, to select just one example, establishes the intimate correspondence between the allegorical significance of metals and the spiritual value of the Sephirot.

This important study, which includes forty-four graphic illustrations, will surely have a significant impact on our understanding of both alchemy and Kabbalah, and the now apparent inter-connection between the two.