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THE OTHER SIDE - JENNIFER HIGGIE KARTONIERT (TB)

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 - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky  Piet Mondrian 
Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee - 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  we explore 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  the early twentieth-century Swedish artist  Hilma af Klint  who
painted with the help of her spirit guides and whose recent exhibition at New York's Guggenheim
broke all attendance records  the 'Desert Transcendentalist'  Agnes Pelton  who painted her
visions beneath the vast skies of California  the Swiss healer  Emma Kunz  who used geometric
drawings to treat her patients  and the British surrealist and occultist  Ithell Colquhoun 
whose estate of more than 5 000 works recently entered the Tate gallery collection. While the
individual work of these artists is unique  the women loosely shared the same goal: to
communicate with  and learn from  other dimensions.Weaving in and out of these myriad lives 
sharing her own memories of otherworldly experiences  Jennifer Higgie discusses the solace of
ritual  the gender exclusions of art history  the contemporary relevance of myth  the boom in
alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and
contemporary art. A radical reappraisal of a marginalised group of artists  THE OTHER SIDE is
an intoxicating blend of memoir  biography and art history.

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