The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by one of the foremost art writers at work today.<\/p>\n
In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history,\u00a0The Other Side\u00a0<\/i>explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen and the nineteenth-century spiritualist Georgiana Houghton to the pioneering Hilma af Klint, these women all – in their own unique ways – shared the same goal: to communicate with, and learn from, other dimensions.<\/p>\n
Weaving in and out of their myriad lives, Jennifer Higgie considers 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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