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Elucidating the Esoteric with Hilma's Ghost

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Elucidating the Esoteric with Hilma's Ghost
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It’s been almost eight years since Swedish painter and occultist Hilma af Klint’s retrospective Paintings for the Future at the Guggenheim Museum in New York tore a hole through the canon of abstraction in art history. With its record-breaking attendance, the show catapulted the late mystic from the throes of relative obscurity in North America and established her as a pioneer of the movement who had slipped under the radar in part because of her devotion to spiritualism and T

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