A darkly evocative compendium of images exploring natural, constructed, imaginary, and subconscious underworlds, curated by renowned image collector and social media figure Stephen Ellcock. 
Underworlds takes readers on a captivating visual odyssey to the underbelly of everything, beginning with depictions of life and natural systems existing beneath the surface of the Earth and ending with imagery that emanates from the depths of our subconscious. Work by world-renowned artists―from Peter Paul Rubens and René Magritte to contemporary artists such as Kara Walker and Roger Ballen―is featured alongside recently unearthed images from archives around the world. Expertly curated, themed, and paired by image alchemist Stephen Ellcock, these remarkable depictions evoke the underworlds―both real and imagined―that have fascinated humankind for millennia. 
From the burrows and secret bunkers beneath our feet to imagined hellscapes and surrealist dreamscapes, the disquieting, alarming,and wonderful visuals span natural and constructed subterranea and imagined and subconscious worlds. The works of art featured range from the scientific and photographic to the surreal and visionary. A personal introduction by Ellcock together with contextual chapter introductions establish key themes while panel texts elucidate essential concepts, historical events, and figures. Thought-provoking literary, philosophical, and spiritual quotations punctuate the intriguing images. 
Together, the arresting images and authoritative text highlight the interplay between the real and the imagined, revealing how the real has informed our imagination, and conversely how our imagination has depicted the esoteric, the abject, and the unknown. 246 color illustrations

Underworlds: A Compelling Journey Through Subterranean Realms, Real and Imagined

Ellcock, Stephen

Reference

Thames&Hudson

Mondes souterrains Voyages dans les profondeurs rEelles et imaginaires /franCais

Elements: Chaos, order and the five elemental forces

Arts & Photography

A visual journey from the minute to the infinite, exploring the relationships and harmonies between all parts of the universe and inspiring personal contemplation regarding our place within it. 
In The Cosmic Dance, renowned image alchemist Stephen Ellcock presents a panglobal collection of remarkable, arresting, and surprising images drawn from the entire history of art to explore the ancient belief that the cosmos is reflected in all living things. Organized thematically, the visual journey begins with the microscopic, the particulate and the elemental; then explores the human body as a cosmos in miniature, the beauty of divine proportions and our search for spiritual enlightenment; before finally reveling in the colossal, the celestial, and the infinite. 
An eloquent introduction provides an overview of the central themes and expert commentaries introduce each section. Detailed captions accompanying select images provide bitesize information on key concepts―from the golden ratio to the Tree of Life and the body politic― while thought-provoking quotations and poems interspersed throughout the artworks prompt a closer, more personal engagement with the images. 
This stunning treasury of artworks provides the perfect guide to a deeper contemplation of the world around us, allowing readers, in the words of William Blake, to “see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.” 300 color illustrations

The Cosmic Dance: Finding Patterns and Pathways in a Chaotic Universe

Product Description 
Stephen Ellcock, one of the world's most beloved digital curators, presents a collection of radically beautiful and provocative images designed to inspire reflection, revelation, and transformation.\nStephen Ellcock pairs hundreds of images, icons, and symbols spanning three thousand years of artistic creation with quotes from activists and writers to provoke reflection, revelation, and transformation. This eye-opening compendium highlights the environmental challenges facing our planet and the social injustice rampant in our societies, while offering hope that a better world is within our grasp. The artwork includes archival images from prominent and obscure artists, Renaissance paintings, counter-cultural iconography, documentary photography, and much more. Readers will walk away with new personal revelations that will motivate them to create change in the world. 
 About the Author 
Stephen Ellcock is a London-based but world-renowned image hunter and social media art curator (@StephenEllcock), and the author of 
All Good Things: A Treasury of Images to Uplift the Spirit and Reawaken Wonder (2019).

The Book of Change: Images and Symbols to Inspire Revelations and Revolutions

Religion & Spirituality

Princeton Architectural Press

Escape Earth's atmosphere and enter Stickyscapes Space! Over 100 removable stickers and a double-sided panoramic space scene let you learn everything about the Milky Way and beyond. One side of the panorama shows real space adventures, so includes our own solar system alongside NASA shuttles and space-walking astronauts. Escape through a wormhole to the other side, which is based on futuristic adventures in deep space!

Stickyscapes Space

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Laurence King Publishing

Music Oracles is a music–lover's favorite from the Laurence King oracle cards range, a series of charming and engaging card decks designed to guide and inspire. Horoscope aficionados, astrology enthusiasts, and die–hard music fans can use the Music Oracles to ask history's most famous music icons for advice on attitude, lifestyle or inspiration. Are you suffering from creative block? Struggling to make a difficult life decision? Find out what David Bowie, Grace Jones, Maria Callas and other great artists would have done. Simply select a card from the pack and channel the oracle's advice on attitude, lifestyle or inspiration to make any obstacle surmountable. The perfect gift for those with eclectic taste, who just can't get enough of their musical idols! Get advice and inspiration from the likes of*: • Prince • Madonna • Björk • Miles Davis • Edith Piaf • Amy Winehouse • Kendrick Lamar • John Lennon • Beyonce *All of the advice offered by the Music Oracles has been inspired by their work, actions and personalities. There are no direct quotations, apart from where quotation marks are used. Discover the other card decks in the Oracles series, including the best–selling Art Oracles, Fashion Oracles and Love Oracles. Contains 50 oracle cards plus a booklet featuring the artists' biographies and details of how to use the cards. Music Oracles is a follow–up to the best–selling Art Oracles and Fashion Oracles.

Music Oracles: Creative & Life Inspiration from Great Musicians

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Dip in to this pack of 50 illustrated cards to refresh and revitalize your senses. How much of the world's beauty have we become indifferent to, caught up in the bustle and rush of day-to-day life? Take a break from the madness, and from your smartphone, and rediscover the magic of the world around you. Surprising, engaging prompts will help you hone in and focus on the world around you and tune back in to the things that really matter.

Ways of Tuning Your Senses

This is a book about English art like no other.\nForget the tired rogues’ gallery of lords and ladies, forget the tall ships and haywains. These images cut to the heart of England’s psychic landscapes to portray an Albion unhinged, where magic and rebellion and destruction are the horses to which the country is hitched. On these fabled shores we are all castaways, whether our family has lived here for four thousand years or for four.\nHere you will find depictions of ancient trackways, chalk carvings and standing stones, of animal-masked community rituals, of streets set ablaze in protest, of occult dreams and psychedelic prophecies. There are over 200 images by artists ranging from William Blake, J.M.W. Turner and Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash, Louis Wain, Bill Brandt, Derek Jarman and Ithell Colquhoun to present-day visionaries such as Paula Rego, Cathy de Monchaux, George Shaw, Jamie Reid, Matt Collishaw, Tacita Dean, Lina Iris Viktor, Yinka Shonibare, Nick Waplington, Dan Hillier, Nicola Tyson, Sutapa Biswas and Chila Kumari Burman.\nThe mind-blowing selection of images is accompanied by short texts by Mat Osman, exploring magic and mazes, ghosts and gardens, shipwrecks and cities. These poetic renderings of a spectral isle, together with Stephen Ellcock’s hallucinatory visual journey, reclaim Albion as an eternally inspiring and anarchic domain – an England on fire.

England on Fire: A Visual Journey through Albion's Psychic Landscape

Osman, Mat

History & Criticism

Watkins Publishing

Time For Magic: A Shamanarchist's Guide to the Wheel of the Year

Carr-Gomm, Philip

Reid, Jamie

Marchant, John

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