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‘Mirages and visions in the air’ Tyra Kleen and the paradoxes of esoteric art
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
Around the year 1900, European discourse on art was becoming increasingly ‘esotericized’. The 1890s saw esoteric art salons create a sensation in Paris, and art critics and theorists painted a picture of the true artist ...
Opening minds for the wisdom of art: Encounters between art and esotericism
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
A reflection on the symposium ‘Clear-sighted Art – Open Mind? Encounters between Art and Esotericism’ arranged at the Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki, 25th August 2020.
Spiritual treasures in Finnish art
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
Review of Spiritual Treasures: Esotericism in the Finnish Art World 1890–1950, edited by Nina Kokkinen and Lotta Nylund (Helsinki: Parvs, 2020).
The painter Meri Genetz and the endless quest for spiritual wisdom
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
Meri Genetz (1885–1943) was a Finnish painter, esotericist, and a spiritual seeker. Around 1925, she began truly dedicating herself to spiritual seeking and started to make notes of her studies in black notebooks. This ...
Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Much more than the ‘biography of a symbol’
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
Review of Adam Stout's Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend (Glastonbury: Green & Pleasant Publishing, 2020).
Seekers of the spiritual art and higher wisdom: Encounters between art and esotericism
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
Editorial of Approaching Religion, Vol. 11 Issue 1, based on a two-day seminar arranged in Helsinki in August 2020 by the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation under the title ‘Clear-sighted Art – Open Mind? Encounters between ...
Artists as truth-seekers: Focusing on agency and seekership in the study of art and occulture
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
This article focuses on the concept of the seeker and considers how the analytical tool of seekership, defined and developed in the sociology of religion, could be applied to the study of art and esotericism. The theoretical ...
Esoteric and occult Sweden
(The Donner Institute, 2021-03-20)
Review of Per Faxneld's Det ockulta sekelskiftet. Esoteriska strömningar i Hilma af Klints tid (Stockholm: Volante, 2020).