{"title":"Ian Whittlesea","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ian-whittlesea-trataka","title":"Ian Whittlesea: Trataka","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThe 200 photographs in \u003cem\u003eTrataka\u003c\/em\u003e record the gradual disappearance of a candle’s physical form and the subtly changing mood of a passing day. Wax is consumed by fire and a solid object converted to light and heat. Finally, a last trace of white smoke rises as the candle gutters and dies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrataka \u003c\/em\u003eis a yogic practice of concentration honed through staring at the centre of a candle flame. It is said to still the mind, stimulate the pineal gland, open the third eye and promote psychic abilities. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThis book may be used as an aid to daily meditation, a flick book for the impatient or as a memento mori.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eIan Whittlesea is an artist whose work explores the relationships between language, light, image and diagram both on the page and in the world. His translation of Yves Klein’s Les Fondements du Judo was published in 2009, Mazdaznan Health \u0026amp; Breath Culture in 2012, Becoming Invisible in 2014, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20products%20%E2%80%BA%20ian-whittlesea-the-egyptian-postures\"\u003eThe Egyptian Postures\u003c\/a\u003e in 2017 and On Colour... in 2019. These texts have been collectively described as ‘instruction manuals for transcendental exercise’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Everyday Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267687792898,"sku":"BK-TEP-IWTRA-001-S","price":7.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_8080_29307194-472a-4dbb-b03a-5e5248fa65ea.jpg?v=1791201035"},{"product_id":"ian-whittlesea-the-egyptian-postures","title":"Ian Whittlesea: The Egyptian Postures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Egyptian Postures\u003c\/em\u003e is a guide to the most advanced Mazdaznan exercises that Johannes Itten taught his students at the Bauhaus. Often performed while singing or humming the postures were intended to activate glands and re-channel internal energies, stirring the blood in ways that contributed to the perpetual evolution of humanity. They were also said to induce auto-illumination, the participant’s body generating an intense light from within. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis edition of Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish’s original instructions has been newly edited and illustrated by Ian Whittlesea with images of actor Ery Nzaramba demonstrating the postures and an in-depth essay by Pádraic E. Moore that explores the relationships between esoteric movements, their racial theories and early modernism's embrace and eventual dismissal of the occult, Mazdaznan and Itten.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eIan Whittlesea is an artist whose work explores the relationships between language, light, image and diagram both on the page and in the world. His translation of Yves Klein’s Les Fondements du Judo was published in 2009, Mazdaznan Health \u0026amp; Breath Culture in 2012, Becoming Invisible in 2014, On Colour... in 2019 and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk%20%E2%80%BA%20products%20%E2%80%BA%20ian-whittlesea-trataka\"\u003eTrataka\u003c\/a\u003e in 2020. These texts have been collectively described as ‘instruction manuals for transcendental exercise’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Everyday Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267690578178,"sku":"BK-TEP-IWEP-001-S","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_8082_679905d2-51b1-4bc4-b43d-9a120a78f180.jpg?v=1791201002"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/collections\/ian-whittlesea.oembed","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}