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The EssayArtists and the Spirit WorldEpisodes

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  1. Donna Huddleston’s Witch Dance

    How alternative ways of understanding the world are inspiring contemporary artists.

  2. Ithell Colquhoun’s Scylla

    Celebrating the artist who championed automatism, feminism and the value of other realms.

  3. Estella Canziani's The Piper of Dreams

    Fairy fever and art’s response to World War I.

  4. Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition V

    The roles of spiritualism and women artists at the beginning of western abstraction.

  5. Hilma af Klint’s The Ten Largest

    Jennifer Higgie traces the impact of the spirit world on modernist art.