Touchstone Tarot
Touchstone Tarot book cover

Touchstone Tarot

Cards – July 1, 2020

Price
$26.95
Publisher
U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1572819986
Dimensions
3.85 x 1.5 x 5.35 inches
Weight
15.9 ounces

Description

About the Author Kat Black has been an artist and performer for over twenty years using a wide variety of media. She exhibited as a painter before moving into digital art. Her main art forms currently are video projection, interactive installation and digital collage. Kat was born and currently resides in Australia, although she has also lived in the US and the UK. In collaboration with her partner Jasper Cook, she creates video projection and public art as VJzoo.

Features & Highlights

  • For Touchstone Tarot, Kat Black created sumptuous tarot collages from Baroque masterpieces, bringing new layers of meaning to readings. The sensual portraits are imbued with subtle facial expressions and nuances that can help the reader intuitively connect with the cards. Familiar Rider-Waite-Smith imagery makes Touchstone Tarot accessible for readers at every level of experience.Presented in an elegant box, this deluxe 80-card deck with gold gilt edges comes with an optional extra Happy Squirrel card. The 108-page illustrated guidebook includes card meanings, card spreads and art references.Kat Black has been an artist and performer for over twenty years using a wide variety of media. She exhibited as a painter before moving into digital art. Her main art forms currently are video projection, interactive installation and digital collage. Kat was born and currently resides in Australia, although she has also lived in the US and the UK. In collaboration with her partner Jasper Cook, she creates video projection and public art as VJzoo.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Giant borders, clumsy collages - stick with the Golden Tarot

I love Kat Black's Golden Tarot - have been using it for years and it's amazing. Touchstone was apparently created first, and it really shows - the collages are really awkward, the choice of artworks is odd (why so many Tudors?!!) Heads are stuck onto obviously wrong bodies, faces of famous painings are changed completely (Rembrandt's wife's on the Empress card got someone else's face - that was jarring. Anne of Cleves is just standing there with ten photoshopped sticks - for no reason). It seems that the creator may have learned from making this deck, to create a far superior Golden Tarot, which has none of these flaws.
Oh, and the borders make things worse. There are the thick brown borders, and in addition, the thick white borders - so the extra size of the cards is completely wasted. The images are actually fairly small, and the borders really get in the way visually.
On the plus side, the card stock is excellent of course, and I'm sure a lot of people will find the collages ok to work with. Don't get it thinking it's as good as the Golden deck, though.
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As described

As described.
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Loved it!

Beautiful and quality deck all around. Great gift worthiness!
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Shuffle carefully

I love them; however, be careful when shuffling. The cardstock is not great and will permanently bend the cards.