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The Spiritual in art : abstract painting 1890-1985 /

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Abbeville Press, 1986.Description: 435 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0896596699
  • 9780896596696
  • 0875871305
  • 9780875871301
  • 0789200562
  • 9780789200563
Other title:
  • Abstract painting 1890-1985
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Contents:
Hidden meanings in abstract art / Maurice Tuchman -- Sacred geometry : French symbolism and early abstraction / Robert P. Welsh -- Annunciation of the new mysticism : Dutch symbolism and early abstraction / Carel Blotkamp -- Nature symbolized : American painting from Ryder to Hartley / Charles C. Eldredge -- Transcending the visible : the generation of the abstract pioneers / Sixten Ringbom -- The case of the artist Hilma af Klint / Ake Fant -- Esoteric culture and Russian society / John E. Bowlt -- Beyond reason : Malevich, Matiushin, and their circles / Charlotte Douglas -- Expressionism, abstraction, and the search for utopia in Germany / Rose-Carol Washton Long -- Mysticism, Romanticism, and the fourth dimension / Linda Dalrymple Henderson -- Arp, Kandinsky, and the legacy of Jakob Böhme / Harriett Watts -- Marcel Duchamp : alchemist of the avant-garde / John F. Moffitt -- Ritual and myth : native American culture and abstract expressionism / W. Jackson Rushing -- Abstract film and color music / William Moritz -- Concerning the spiritual in contemporary art / Donald Kuspit -- Occult literature in France / Geurt Imanse -- Occult literature in Russia / Edward Kasinec and Boris Kerdimun -- A glossary of spiritual and related terms / Robert Galbreath -- Chronologies : artists and the spiritual / Judi Freeman.
Summary: "Countless generations of artists have been intrigued by the mysteries offered by spiritual writings and belief systems. In the 1890s interest in the occult and mysticism fused with the genesis of abstract painting... Kandinsky in Germany, Frantisek Kupka first in Czechoslovakia and later in France, Kazimir Malevich and others of his circle in Russia, and Piet Mondrian in the Netherlands created a pure abstract vision that embodied their involvement with esoteric thought. Their legacy was spread by many of their contemporaries to subsequent generations of artists who found new means to unite abstraction with mystical concepts, thereby creating meaningful images, a fact that has largely been ignored in much of the scholarship devoted to this period. This exhibition, in its international scope and conception, focuses on this issue." -- Foreword.
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Catalogue of the exhibition "The Spiritual in art: abstract painting 1890-1985."

Exhibition schedule: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (opening Nov. 1986); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Haags Gemeentemuseum, the Hague.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hidden meanings in abstract art / Maurice Tuchman -- Sacred geometry : French symbolism and early abstraction / Robert P. Welsh -- Annunciation of the new mysticism : Dutch symbolism and early abstraction / Carel Blotkamp -- Nature symbolized : American painting from Ryder to Hartley / Charles C. Eldredge -- Transcending the visible : the generation of the abstract pioneers / Sixten Ringbom -- The case of the artist Hilma af Klint / Ake Fant -- Esoteric culture and Russian society / John E. Bowlt -- Beyond reason : Malevich, Matiushin, and their circles / Charlotte Douglas -- Expressionism, abstraction, and the search for utopia in Germany / Rose-Carol Washton Long -- Mysticism, Romanticism, and the fourth dimension / Linda Dalrymple Henderson -- Arp, Kandinsky, and the legacy of Jakob Böhme / Harriett Watts -- Marcel Duchamp : alchemist of the avant-garde / John F. Moffitt -- Ritual and myth : native American culture and abstract expressionism / W. Jackson Rushing -- Abstract film and color music / William Moritz -- Concerning the spiritual in contemporary art / Donald Kuspit -- Occult literature in France / Geurt Imanse -- Occult literature in Russia / Edward Kasinec and Boris Kerdimun -- A glossary of spiritual and related terms / Robert Galbreath -- Chronologies : artists and the spiritual / Judi Freeman.

"Countless generations of artists have been intrigued by the mysteries offered by spiritual writings and belief systems. In the 1890s interest in the occult and mysticism fused with the genesis of abstract painting... Kandinsky in Germany, Frantisek Kupka first in Czechoslovakia and later in France, Kazimir Malevich and others of his circle in Russia, and Piet Mondrian in the Netherlands created a pure abstract vision that embodied their involvement with esoteric thought. Their legacy was spread by many of their contemporaries to subsequent generations of artists who found new means to unite abstraction with mystical concepts, thereby creating meaningful images, a fact that has largely been ignored in much of the scholarship devoted to this period. This exhibition, in its international scope and conception, focuses on this issue." -- Foreword.

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