Thank you! I'm starting work on a nonfiction book on creativity and the first chapter is about the spiritualist artists and what they can teach us about inspiration. I'm pretty enthralled by them.
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Have you read Georgiana Houghton's memoir? It's amazing because she attributes her paintings to possession by spirits like St Joseph, and that cultivated ego-death liberated her genius. But she's also passionately proud of her work even as she disavows authorship. The contradiction of creativity.
If you don't know her paintings take a look! She's the first abstract painter in the west--exhibited abstracts in 1871, four decades ahead of Kandinsky and about three and a half before af Klint--and she's scandalously unknown. And amazing!
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