The other side : a journey into women, art and the spirit world
Higgie, Jennifer2023
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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 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', the author explores 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.
Main title:
The other side : a journey into women, art and the spirit world / Jennifer Higgie.
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Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023.London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023.
Collation:
312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781474623322 (hbk)
Dewey class:
709.22
Language:
English
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BRN:
2736367