TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tuchman,Maurice
AU  - Freeman,Judi
AU  - Blotkamp,Carel
ED  - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ED  - Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)
ED  - Haags Gemeentemuseum
TI  - The Spiritual in art: abstract painting 1890-1985 
SN  - 0896596699
AV  - ND192.A25 S6 1986
U1  - 759.0652074 19
PY  - 1986///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Abbeville Press
KW  - Painting, Abstract
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Painting, Modern
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
N1  - 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; Åke 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; Also issued online
N2  - 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
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