The Pittsburgh Tarot
ISBN-13: 9781648413391
Author(s): Ed Simon
Subjects: VXFC1
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
Publisher Imprint: Microcosm Publishing
Publication Date: 30-10-2025
Format: Cards
Availability: In stock
£26.99
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About the book
Iron and stained glass, brick and stone, clouds and rain-Pittsburgh is arguably America's most gothic city. Permeated with an old-world sensibility, this once perennially dark and smoggy metropolis that built its wealth through coke and steel is moody, atmospheric, melancholic, and beautiful. Eschewing contemporary stereotypes that reduce the city to just football or sandwiches with fries on them, The Pittsburgh Tarot expresses the complicated and conflicted period of the city's greatest expansion and influence during the 19th century. This is the same era that inspired the iconic Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot illustrations, and each of the cards in this deck pays homage to those original designs. To that end, The Pittsburgh Tarot features people, events, and themes from the 19th century and through La Belle Epoque, with a special focus on the Gilded Age, the city's period of greatest significance. With an aesthetic style that calls to mind the gothic work of artist Edward Gorey, this is a beautiful and unique expression of a city that's as much sentiment and disposition as it is location.