| Description |
435 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Note |
Exhibition schedule: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (opening Nov. 1986); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Haags Gemeentemuseum, the Hague. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| 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 / 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. |
| Subject |
Painting, Abstract -- Exhibitions.
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Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
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Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Tuchman, Maurice.
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Freeman, Judi.
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Blotkamp, Carel.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)
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Haags Gemeentemuseum.
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| ISBN |
0896596699 |
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9780896596696 |
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0875871305 LACMA paperback |
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9780875871301 LACMA paperback |
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