The Ways of Paradise

Author: Cornell, Peter

History of art / art & design styles

Published on 21 November 2024 by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 152 pages, 40 Illustrations, black and white
197 x 127 x 12 | 204g

In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Sweden working on his magnum opus. Upon his death, no trace of this work remains aside from this set of notes and fragments which form an enigmatic set of texts on the connections between art, literature, spirituality and the occult through history, with a particular focus on spirals and labyrinths. Ranging from the Crusades to Ruskin, Freud to surrealism, cubism, automatic writing, Duchamp, the Manhattan Project, Pollock and Smithson, this cult book, first published in Sweden in 1987, is translated into English for the first time by Saskia Vogel.