"An enthralling and hugely important book, a genuine milestone in the ongoing, urgent and long -overdue rewriting of art and cultural history that will finally give these remarkable women the recognition and acclaim they deserve."
A brilliant and necessary work of cultural reclamation and rediscovery, Jennifer Higgie’s The Other Side is a beautifully written, enlightening and hugely enjoyable exploration of the lives and work of a group of extraordinary, and often neglected women artists, all of whom sought to achieve transcendence in their work, using techniques , methods and pathways drawn from a variety of spiritual traditions and practices to achieve a heightened state of consciousness in order into alternative dimensions and higher planes. Many of these women regarded themselves as intermediaries between the earthly realm and the spirit world, often channelling, or interacting with divine messengers and heavenly voices.
The featured artists range from the twelfth-century mystic, composer and artist Hildegard von Bingen, to the nineteenth – century English spiritualist artist Georgiana Houghton, who, under the tutelage of her spirit guides, (who included the Renaissance masters Titian and Corregio) created a series of astonishing abstract watercolours of extraordinary complexity and beauty, predating the non-objective experiments of Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich etc by several decades.
Other featured names include the great Swedish visionary Hilma af Klint, whose remarkable work will be featured in a forthcoming major exhibition at Tate Modern, to the brilliant English surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, whose estate, numbering more than 5,000 works, recently entered the collection of Tate Britain.
Jennifer Higgie explains the esoteric and Spiritualist beliefs that guided and influenced many of the featured artists, providing a vital and illuminating context for their work.
Even though I have featured many of the featured artists in my own books, I learned so much from ‘The Other Side’. It is an enthralling and hugely important book, a genuine milestone in the ongoing, urgent and long -overdue rewriting of art and cultural history that will finally give these remarkable women the recognition and acclaim they deserve.
Accept no substitutes.
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