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The Quest for Gold Andrew Fekete

The Quest for Gold By Andrew Fekete

The Quest for Gold by Andrew Fekete


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The Quest for Gold is an edited version of writings by visionary Andrew Fekete a painter, architect, poet and writer, who died in 1986 from an Aids-related illness.

The Quest for Gold Summary

The Quest for Gold by Andrew Fekete

The Quest for Gold is an edited version of writings by visionary Andrew Fekete a painter, architect, poet and writer, who died in 1986 from an Aids-related illness. Andrew, flaneur, walked the city; he was a man whose writings, to adapt the words of Baudelaire, serve as a mirror as vast as the crowd itself. This anthology, collated by his brother Peter, comprises key works from Andrew Feketes opus, and deals with his development as an artist, his visions and his experiment in Jungian alchemy the intentional creation of visionary experiences to manifest unconscious archetypes to consciousness. The title is taken from an autobiographical novella that Andrew wrote in 1982, with extracts from his diaries also provided. The culmination of the anthology is the poem Punishment for the Transgressors in which Andrew confronts his impending death, thereby illustrating the connection between art and life. The work, which is open to multiple interpretations, is witty and entertaining, dramatic and engaging, full of deep sentiment and self-reflection. We journey with Andrew in his Quest for Gold that occurs against the background of his sexuality and his membership of the gay community. We see into the mind of a man undertaking an experiment in the exploration of what Jung calls the contents of the collective unconscious in an attempt at self-healing and expansion of consciousness. You can find out more about Andrew Fekete at www.andrewfekete.net and see a retroscpective of his work at the Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool until April 2017.

About Andrew Fekete

Andrew Fekete was a painter, writer and practicing Jungian alchemist. He died of an AIDS-related illness in 1986.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Voyage into Night

The Quest for Gold
1. Ariel
2. The Serpent
3. The Hidden Continents
4. The Foundation
5. The Light of Darkness

Selected Diary Entries for the Period of Composition of The Quest for Gold

Punishment for the Transgressors

Symbols of Creation and Destruction

Appendix. Revised versions of two poems

Additional information

GOR013777122
9781781383315
1781383316
The Quest for Gold by Andrew Fekete
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Liverpool University Press
2016-10-20
202
N/A
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