Visionary - On Hilma af Klint and the Spirit of Her Time - Part 2

Theosophy, a spiritual doctrine founded in New York in 1875, served as a source of inspiration for many of the earlier abstract artists. What did its teaching consist of and how can we understand it today when it appears in contemporary art?
0:07 Isaac Lubelsky - New York 1875: The Birth of Theosophy
17:00 Linda Dalrymple Henderson - Visions of Space and Matter: Hilma af Klint in Her Occult/Scientific Context
38:00 Marco Pasi - Afterthought Forms: The Changing Role of Esotericism between Modern and Contemporary Art
58:00 R.H. Quaytman - +x, Chapter 34.
1:05:20 Discussion.
During the inauguration of the exhibition "Paintings for the Future" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, a symposium was arranged: Visionary - about Hilma af Klint's art and the spirit of the time around the turn of the century 1900. It dealt with issues such as the beginning of abstract art and its connections to movements that flourished then in the United States and Europe.