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Haunted visions : spiritualism and American art
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ISBN: 9780812243253 Year: 2011 Publisher: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press

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Hilma af Klint and The Five's sketchbooks, no. S2, S6 and S13 : 5 October 1896-10 January 1906.
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ISBN: 9789189425415 9189425413 9789189069732 9189069730 9789189425392 9189425391 9789189425408 9189425405 Year: 2021 Publisher: Stockholm Bokförlaget Stolpe

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Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) together with Anna Cassel, Cornelia Cederberg and Mathilda Nilsson under Sigrid Hedman's leadership established The Five - a group exploring spiritual realms through meditation and séances. This multi-pack edition contains reproductions of three complete sketchbooks, to scale, from séances that took place at the beginning of the 20th century. In trancelike states the group believed they could communicate with mystic beings with names such as Amaliel, Ananda, and Gregor transcribing their messages via automatic writings and drawings.


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Healing Power
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ISBN: 9088909202 9789088909207 9789088909184 9088909180 9088909199 9789088909191 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden Sidestone Press

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Hidden healing practices exert fascination and stimulate extensive scientific and public interest. It is a contested topic for many indigenous peoples. Throughout the ages, numerous spiritual healing forms have been marginalized or severely persecuted. Nowadays, however, there is a growing interest in these traditions all over the world. Some are recovered and sometimes also mixed resulting in the blending of different indigenous and Western approaches.After the loss of the original spiritual contexts during the colonization period, indigenous peoples around the world revive parts of their cultural heritage. They also find inspiration in foreign cultural traditions. Next generations develop new ways to connect to the ancestors and search for new healing practices. This publication explores a limited selection of the manifold collective and individual healing practices, such as shamanism, winti, vodou and European witchcraft. Practitioners and/or academics share their insights and perspectives. Power objects and healing related art from the collection of the National Museum of World Cultures in the Netherlands reveal hidden meanings of sacred traditions. Contemporary artists are inspired by spiritual healing and renew its meaning in the present.


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Esprit, es-tu là? : les peintres et les voix de l'au-delà : exposition, Paris, Musée Maillol, du 10 juin au 1er novembre 2020
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ISBN: 9789462302532 9789462302549 9462302537 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bruxelles : Fonds Mercator,

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Cet ouvrage révèle l'oeuvre d'une sélection d'artistes spirites autour de trois figures principales de la fin du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe siècle : Augustin Lesage, Victor Simon et Fleury-Joseph Crépin. Originaires tous trois du Nord de la France et de milieu modeste, travaillant comme mineurs, plombiers ou cafetiers, rien ne les prédestinait à la peinture, jusqu'à que ce que des voix les enjoignent à le faire. Naissent alors des oeuvres étranges, d'une minutie exceptionnelle et d'une grande qualité plastique, conçues comme des édifications spirituelles, associant des influences et des motifs d'origines disparates : chrétiennes, hindoues, orientales ou encore inspirées de l'Égypte antique. L'ornement et la symétrie dominent dans leurs ouvres ainsi que dans celles des autres peintres spirites également présentés dans l'exposition. Le courant spirite, qui apparaît d'abord aux États-Unis au milieu du XIXe siècle, fait des émules en Europe. Communiquer avec les esprits devient rapidement un phénomène de société, favorisé par les guerres qui secouent le continent, puis cultivé par les milieux intellectuels. Les surréalistes André Breton ou Victor Brauner seront parmi les premiers à collectionner les oeuvres de ces artistes, jusqu'à Jean Dubuffet. À travers des documents d'archives, des oeuvres contemporaines, des installations, et des vidéos, l'exposition souligne également la survivance des pratiques spirites et leur rayonnement au-delà de la peinture.


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The other side : A journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World.
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ISBN: 9781474623322 1474623328 9781474623339 Year: 2023 Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson,

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It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee - without repercussion. The fact that so many radical women artists of their generation - and earlier - also drank deeply from the same spiritual well has for too long been sorely neglected. In The Other Side, we explore the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women, from the twelfth-century mystic, composer and artist Hildegard of Bingen to the nineteenth-century English spiritualist Georgiana Houghton, whose paintings swirl like a cosmic Jackson Pollock; the early twentieth-century Swedish artist, Hilma af Klint, who painted with the help of her spirit guides and whose recent exhibition at New York's Guggenheim broke all attendance records; the 'Desert Transcendentalist', Agnes Pelton, who painted her visions beneath the vast skies of California; the Swiss healer, Emma Kunz, who used geometric drawings to treat her patients; and the British surrealist and occultist, Ithell Colquhoun, whose estate of more than 5,000 works recently entered the Tate gallery collection. While the individual work of these artists is unique, the women loosely shared the same goal: to communicate with, and learn from, other dimensions. Weaving in and out of these myriad lives, sharing her own memories of otherworldly experiences, Jennifer Higgie discusses the solace of ritual, the gender exclusions of art history, the contemporary relevance of myth, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art. A radical reappraisal of a marginalised group of artists, The Other Side is an intoxicating blend of memoir, biography and art history.


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L'art de l'ornementation : la concaténation de Léonard de Vinci et autres motifs
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ISBN: 9782376500377 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : I.

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Le site de l'éditeur indique : "Anthologie composée d'articles, pour la plupart, inédits en français, celui-ci porte sur la signification spirituelle de l'ornementation traditionnelle et la doctrine qui la sous-tend. L'idée au cœur de ce volume est que, d'une façon générale, une œuvre d'art traditionnelle, qu'elle soit majeure ou mineure, se doit de satisfaire aux besoins de l'âme aussi bien que du corps ou de l'intellect et qu'elle ne contient rien qui ne saurait être mis en relation avec des écrits canoniques ou des commentateurs éclairés. Toute œuvre spirituelle obéit à un certain nombre de critères dont le principal demeure l'anonymat de l'artiste qui tend à œuvrer non lui mais Dieu à travers lui. Il ne s'agit pas, pour lui, de produire une œuvre originale mais plutôt originelle. Pour étayer son propos, Coomaraswamy s'attache à quelques exemples d'ornementation, ici tout particulièrement la Concaténation de Léonard de Vinci et les Nœuds de Dürer, dont il montre les ramifications qu'ils entretiennent avec tout un ensemble d'autres œuvres de l'antiquité à nos jours allant du labyrinthe à l'arabesque en passant par le tissage. Article après article, Coomaraswamy aborde non seulement la signification de l'ornementation mais aussi le choc esthétique reliée à une réalisation spirituelle que les œuvres avaient pour but de provoquer. Il voit dans les motifs ornementaux non de simples figures de style mais de véritables façons de penser. Il développe aussi, dans le cadre de cette esthétique, l'importance de l'intention et de l'imitation ou encore du symbolisme. Il en ressort que, loin d'être une simple compilation d'articles pour spécialistes, ce volume constitue une introduction permettant au lecteur non-spécialiste de pouvoir comprendre certaines subtilités théologiques et esthétiques au cœur d'œuvres que ce regard permet d'approcher différemment."


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Hilma af Klint : The Complete Catalogue Raisonné. Volumes I-VII
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ISBN: 9789189069237 9189069234 9789189069244 9789189069114 9789189069251 9789189069275 9189069110 9189069242 9789198523669 9789189069282 919852366X 9789189069268 9189069269 9189069285 9189069250 9189069277 Year: 2022 Publisher: Stockholm Stolpe Publishing

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Hilma af Klint became known to a wider audience in 2013, nearly 70 years after her death, in conjunction with Moderna Museet's Stockholm exhibition Hilma af Klint: Abstract Pioneer. Six years later, her work was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Both exhibitions saw record numbers of visitors, and today she is one of the world's most acclaimed artists.Hilma af Klint has become incredibly popular and beloved throughout the world, notes Daniel Birnbaum, co-editor with Kurt Almqvist. What makes her art interesting is that the works are highly interconnected. A catalogue raisonné is necessary in order to see the different cycles, motifs and symbols that recur in a fascinating way. If people want to truly understand how Hilma af Klint's works function, they need these books. The paintings in the catalogue raisonné are presented in the same order as Olof Sundström, also a follower of anthroposophy, numbered them in 1945, based on Hilma af Klint's notes. The forewords to the volumes are short and concise. They present facts about the works rather than interpretations. The works are printed in an exclusive edition designed by Patric Leo housed in a specially produced slipcase to hold all seven volumes.


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Hilma af Klint : paintings for the future
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ISBN: 9780892075430 0892075430 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Guggenheim Museum Publications

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When Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than 1,000 paintings and works on paper that she had kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready for her art, she stipulated that it should remain unseen for another 20 years. But only in recent decades has the public had a chance to reckon with af Klint's radically abstract painting practice―one which predates the work of Vasily Kandinsky and other artists widely considered trailblazers of modernist abstraction. Her boldly colorful works, many of them large-scale, reflect an ambitious, spiritually informed attempt to chart an invisible, totalizing world order through a synthesis of natural and geometric forms, textual elements and esoteric symbolism.

Accompanying the first major survey exhibition of the artist's work in the United States, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future represents her groundbreaking painting series while expanding recent scholarship to present the fullest picture yet of her life and art. Essays explore the social, intellectual and artistic context of af Klint's 1906 break with figuration and her subsequent development, placing her in the context of Swedish modernism and folk art traditions, contemporary scientific discoveries, and spiritualist and occult movements. A roundtable discussion among contemporary artists, scholars and curators considers af Klint's sources and relevance to art in the 21st century. The volume also delves into her unrealized plans for a spiral-shaped temple in which to display her art―a wish that finds a fortuitous answer in the Guggenheim Museum's rotunda, the site of the exhibition.


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Afro-Cuban Religious Arts
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ISBN: 0813050456 0813055024 9780813055022 1322181969 9781322181967 9780813050454 9780813049700 0813049709 Year: 2014 Publisher: Gainesville University Press of Florida

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"From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1880s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, this book profiles four generations of women from one Afro-Cuban religious family. The women were connected by their prominent roles as leaders in the religions they practiced and the dramatic ritual artwork they created. Each was a medium in Espiritismo--communicating with dead ancestors for guidance or insight--and also a santera, or priest of Santería, who could engage the oricha pantheon. Kristine Juncker argues that by creating art for more than one religion these women shatter the popular assumption that Afro-Caribbean religions are exclusive organizations. The portraiture, sculptures, and photographs in Afro-Cuban Religious Arts offer rare and remarkable glimpses into the rituals and iconography of Espiritismo and Santería. Santería altars are closely guarded, limited to initiates, and typically destroyed upon the death of the santera while Espiritismo artifacts are rarely considered valuable enough to pass on. The unique and protean cultural legacy detailed here reveals how ritual art became popular imagery, sparked a wider dialogue about culture inheritance, attracted new practitioners, and enabled Afro-Cuban religious expression to explode internationally."--Publisher's website.


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Persona, étrangement humain
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ISBN: 9782330038014 9782357440845 2330038011 Year: 2015 Publisher: Arles Actes Sud

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Ce catalogue s’intéresse aux mécanismes par lesquels un objet accède à un statut de “personne” et peut se transformer en être animé, alors qu’il n’est constitué que de matière inerte. Il s’agit de comprendre les caractéristiques formelles et les dispositifs situationnels dont jouent les cultures les plus diverses, y compris la nôtre, pour injecter de la “personne” dans des objets. Il présente des essais et des pièces de l’art occidental ou non occidental, d’art populaire ou d’art contemporain. Il confronte aussi le lecteur à des objets empruntés aux domaines des nouvelles technologies, au design et à la robotique.

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