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Some of the original artwork for PoMo Tarot, watercolored pen drawings on paper, will be available for purchase in the near future. Check back to this page for more information.
ACCLAIM, BUZZ AND HYPE FOR POMO TAROT. Brian Williams' PoMo TAROT — a humorous, "postmodern" tarot published in 1994 by HarperCollins — has aroused more attention than any other deck of tarot cards, ever. PoMo TAROT has been heralded with text and illustrations by: The New York Times "Tarot Goes 'PoMo', Today's cards are multicultural, nonhierarchical, almost user–friendly" Vogue "Now artist Brian Williams has brought the imagery of divining the future up–to–date, drawing on icons from high and low art" The San Jose Mercury News "Williams' tarot deck has been getting the kind of mainstream attention many tarot card designers would die for. In the elegantly designed guide that is packaged with the deck, Williams presents a concise and witty course in art history..." Mademoiselle "Now, here's a tarot deck that really speaks to me...the pictures are totally cool..." Harper's Bazaar Italia "The ability of the artist consists in putting together fantasy and reality, making accessible to everyone the mysteries of the tarot" The San Francisco Chronicle "With this deck, you get a giggle along with your reading. Williams tweaks tradition every which way" Other appearances in print, often run with illustrations, include: the Washington Post, the San Francisco Sunday Examiner Magazine, the Contra Costa Times, the East Bay Express, the Improper Bostonian, the Detroit News, the Oakland Tribune, and recently, Milan's Corriere della Sera (in a political column!). Other magazine appearances include Gnosis, Napra Trade Journal, Psychic Reader, California Monthly, Frontiers and New York Magazine. |
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PoMo TAROT, a deck of
cards with an accompanying book, both by Brian Williams, was published in 1994 by
HarperSanFrancisco. A quirky, humorous, modern tarot, PoMo (for "postmodern")
Tarot updates the traditional imagery of the tarot pack with "fin de millennium"
archetypes: a trendy Idiot instead of the Fool, a scientific Expert instead of the Magician, Mom
and Dad instead of Empress and Emperor. The four suits of coins, cups, staves and swords have
been changed into money, bottles, TVs and guns. Dozens of famous images from modern art are
spoofed in the deck. For the card Seven Guns, for example, every figure in Picasso's Guernica
brandishes a pistol, and Whistler's Mother watches the tube as TV Woman. 