Apr 1, 2009
POSTED BY Jay Babcock
Mushroom Magick: A Visionary Field Guide
by Arik Roper
Hardcover: 144 pages
Abrams
ISBN-10: 0810996316
List Price: $19.95
Amazon Price: $13.57
Here’s some promotion blurbage from the publisher:
For centuries hallucinogenic mushrooms have participated in a sublime relationship with humankind, thanks to their psychoactive chemicals that shift and modify the human mind. Arik Roper’s exquisite painted portraits of magic mushrooms illustrate more than 90 of the known hallucinogenic species from around the world. He captures their powerful auras, adding to a tradition of Mushroom art that stretches back more than 400 years.
Popular culture critics [and sometime Arthur columnists] Erik Davis and Daniel Pinchbeck provide background and testimony in elegant essays, and mushroom expert Gary Lincoff contributes notes. This beautifully designed and profusely illustrated mushroom bible will appeal to nature lovers, mushroom hunters, and enthusiasts of all things psychedelic.
Some pages from the book:
[...] http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/04/01/at-last-arthur-contributing-artist-arik-ropers-mushroom-book/ Shroom [...]
singed copies available anywhere?
or signed even!
[...] Arik Moonhawk Roper (a longtime Arthur contributing artist) will be celebrating the launch of his new book Mushroom Magick this Friday in New York. In creating this book, Roper has added his own indelible mark to the long history of mushroom art, presenting over 90 of his original portraits of hallucinogenic species of mushroom alongside educational writings by friends and scholars Erik Davis, Daniel Pinchbeck and Gary Lincoff. Learn more about and see images of Roper’s richly water-colored illustrations of these mysterious fungi here. [...]