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==The Rider-Waite Tarot== | ==The Rider-Waite Tarot== | ||
[[File:Rider-Waite Magician.png|300px|thumb|The Magician Card - original black and white version drawn by Pamela Coleman Smith]] | [[File:Rider-Waite Magician.png|300px|thumb|The Magician Card - original black and white version drawn by Pamela Coleman Smith]] | ||
The 78 illustrations that make up the [[Rider- | The 78 illustrations that make up the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck "represent archetypal subjects that each become a portal to an invisible realm of signs and symbols, believed to be channeled through processes of divination." They are original works of art and unique in terms of the cards' stylization, draftsmanship, and composition, which is a significant aesthetic achievement. They are one of the best examples of Smith's jaw-dropping imagination for fantasy, folly, ecstasy, death, and the macabre. | ||
When Smith's tarot was first published by Rider, in England, in December 1909, it was simply called ''Tarot Cards'' and it was accompanied by Arthur Edward Waite's guide entitled ''[[The Key to the Tarot]]''. The following year Waite added Smith's black-and-white drawings to the book and published it as ''The Pictorial Key to the Tarot''. In 1971, U.S. Games bought the right to publish the deck and published it under the title The Rider Tarot Deck (because of differences in U.S. and U.K. copyright law, the extent of their copyright in the Waite–Smith deck is disputed). In later editions they changed the name to Rider Tarot and then Rider Waite Tarot. Today most scholars, in order to recognize the importance of Smith's contribution, refer to the deck as the Waite–Smith Tarot. Tarot writers often refer to the deck with the simple abbreviation of RWS, for Rider–Waite–Smith. | When Smith's tarot was first published by Rider, in England, in December 1909, it was simply called ''Tarot Cards'' and it was accompanied by Arthur Edward Waite's guide entitled ''[[The Key to the Tarot]]''. The following year Waite added Smith's black-and-white drawings to the book and published it as ''The Pictorial Key to the Tarot''. In 1971, U.S. Games bought the right to publish the deck and published it under the title The Rider Tarot Deck (because of differences in U.S. and U.K. copyright law, the extent of their copyright in the Waite–Smith deck is disputed). In later editions they changed the name to Rider Tarot and then Rider Waite Tarot. Today most scholars, in order to recognize the importance of Smith's contribution, refer to the deck as the Waite–Smith Tarot. Tarot writers often refer to the deck with the simple abbreviation of RWS, for Rider–Waite–Smith. | ||