The Gilded Owl

The Carnival at the End of the World Tarot Deck by Kahn and Selesnick

A unique, carnivalesque take on the traditional tarot by the Truppe Fledermaus. The second edition of our Carnival at the End of the World Tarot Deck with a new box and card back. Printed on high quality playing card stock with curved corners for maximum durability. Includes 6 bonus images for a total of 84 cards.

$55.00

The Drowning World Poker Deck by Kahn Selenick

The cards may be laid down end to end to form one continuously connected landscape. Printed on high quality playing card stock with curved corners for maximum durability. Includes the standard 52 cards found in a normal playing card deck, but the traditional suits have been replaced with weeds, birds, chimneys, and icebergs. Also included are two identical cautionary tale cards that may be used as jokers.

$33.00

About Kahn and Selenick

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick are a collaborative artist team who have been working together since they met while attending art school at Washington University in St. Louis in the early 1980s. Both were born in 1964, in New York City and London respectively. They work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in the past or future. These may include: documentary-style panoramic and square photographs that combine absurdist fantasy and bogus anthropology; elaborately crafted artifact, costumes and sculpture, often constructed of unlikely materials such as bread or fur, painting and drawings ranging from large scale works on plaster to pages of conceptual doodling. Kahn lives in Ghent NY, and Selesnick in Rhinebeck NY.

Their current work features the recreation of the Truppe Fledermaus's Memory Theatre of 1932 with its full complement of Batfolk, Greenmen, Rope-Slingers, and Death-Dancers in all their Carnivalesque glory. Kahn & Selesnick have participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions worldwide and have work in over 20 collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, they have published 3 books with Aperture Press, Scotlandfuturebog, City of Salt, and Apollo Prophecies. Their most recent book, 100 Views of the Drowning World, is available now from Candela Books.

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