Table of 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 / êAke 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 Bèohme / 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.