I'm only a few pages in, but I think Baker's already said it's difficult to establish how 'real' she was.Mrs Patterson is the older woman, she gets quite mythologised in Grant's work, which is I think taken apart in Phil Baker's book?
Never heard of Aby Warburg, just looked him up, his Mnemosyne Atlas sounds pretty good.if you'd have to make a list of artist like these. artist that play with the occult, the spiritual, and often work multidisciplinary, who would you include?
austin osman spare
william blake
aby warburg
...
?
Mrs Patterson is the older woman, she gets quite mythologised in Grant's work, which is I think taken apart in Phil Baker's book?
if you'd have to make a list of artist like these. artist that play with the occult, the spiritual, and often work multidisciplinary, who would you include?
austin osman spare
william blake
aby warburg
...
?
Gysin needs a big art book and retrospective I think. fuck knows where the paintings are now though.
Hilma af Klint (has been exhibited lately I think)
There's a new bio of Colquhoun out now, by Amy Hale. I must get it, it looks amazing. She wrote what was at the time the only biog of Macgregor Mathers, founder of the Golden Dawn.Ithell Colquhoun
Penny Slinger