The Spiritual in art : abstract painting 1890-1985 /
The Spiritual in art : abstract painting 1890-1985 /
Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; organized by Maurice Tuchman with the assistance of Judi Freeman, in collaboration with Carel Blotkamp [and others].
- 435 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm
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 / Sacred geometry : French symbolism and early abstraction / Annunciation of the new mysticism : Dutch symbolism and early abstraction / Nature symbolized : American painting from Ryder to Hartley / Transcending the visible : the generation of the abstract pioneers / The case of the artist Hilma af Klint / Esoteric culture and Russian society / Beyond reason : Malevich, Matiushin, and their circles / Expressionism, abstraction, and the search for utopia in Germany / Mysticism, Romanticism, and the fourth dimension / Arp, Kandinsky, and the legacy of Jakob Böhme / Marcel Duchamp : alchemist of the avant-garde / Ritual and myth : native American culture and abstract expressionism / Abstract film and color music / Concerning the spiritual in contemporary art / Occult literature in France / Occult literature in Russia / A glossary of spiritual and related terms / Chronologies : artists and the spiritual / Maurice Tuchman -- Robert P. Welsh -- Carel Blotkamp -- Charles C. Eldredge -- Sixten Ringbom -- Åke Fant -- John E. Bowlt -- Charlotte Douglas -- Rose-Carol Washton Long -- Linda Dalrymple Henderson -- Harriett Watts -- John F. Moffitt -- W. Jackson Rushing -- William Moritz -- Donald Kuspit -- Geurt Imanse -- Edward Kasinec and Boris Kerdimun -- Robert Galbreath -- Judi Freeman.
Traces the use of geometric signs by the Nabis and other French artists and relates this to the development of abstraction. The author describes some of the sources of ideas about the symbolism of geometric signs, in particular the writings of Helena P. Blavatsky, and traces the impact of these on the Nabis, possibly through the stimulus of Gauguin whose paintings from his Brittany period encouraged a mystical conception of art in which sacred geometry figured as one component. He goes on to discuss in detail the paintings of Paul Serusier, Paul Ranson, Maurice Denis, Charles Filiger, Jean Delville, Frantisek Kupka and Mondrian.
0896596699 9780896596696 0875871305 9780875871301 0789200562 9780789200563
86014093
Painting, Abstract--Exhibitions
Painting, Modern--19th century--Exhibitions
Painting, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions
ND192.A25 / S6 1986
759.0652074
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 / Sacred geometry : French symbolism and early abstraction / Annunciation of the new mysticism : Dutch symbolism and early abstraction / Nature symbolized : American painting from Ryder to Hartley / Transcending the visible : the generation of the abstract pioneers / The case of the artist Hilma af Klint / Esoteric culture and Russian society / Beyond reason : Malevich, Matiushin, and their circles / Expressionism, abstraction, and the search for utopia in Germany / Mysticism, Romanticism, and the fourth dimension / Arp, Kandinsky, and the legacy of Jakob Böhme / Marcel Duchamp : alchemist of the avant-garde / Ritual and myth : native American culture and abstract expressionism / Abstract film and color music / Concerning the spiritual in contemporary art / Occult literature in France / Occult literature in Russia / A glossary of spiritual and related terms / Chronologies : artists and the spiritual / Maurice Tuchman -- Robert P. Welsh -- Carel Blotkamp -- Charles C. Eldredge -- Sixten Ringbom -- Åke Fant -- John E. Bowlt -- Charlotte Douglas -- Rose-Carol Washton Long -- Linda Dalrymple Henderson -- Harriett Watts -- John F. Moffitt -- W. Jackson Rushing -- William Moritz -- Donald Kuspit -- Geurt Imanse -- Edward Kasinec and Boris Kerdimun -- Robert Galbreath -- Judi Freeman.
Traces the use of geometric signs by the Nabis and other French artists and relates this to the development of abstraction. The author describes some of the sources of ideas about the symbolism of geometric signs, in particular the writings of Helena P. Blavatsky, and traces the impact of these on the Nabis, possibly through the stimulus of Gauguin whose paintings from his Brittany period encouraged a mystical conception of art in which sacred geometry figured as one component. He goes on to discuss in detail the paintings of Paul Serusier, Paul Ranson, Maurice Denis, Charles Filiger, Jean Delville, Frantisek Kupka and Mondrian.
0896596699 9780896596696 0875871305 9780875871301 0789200562 9780789200563
86014093
Painting, Abstract--Exhibitions
Painting, Modern--19th century--Exhibitions
Painting, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions
ND192.A25 / S6 1986
759.0652074