The Other Side

''In effervescent and atmospheric prose, Jennifer Higgie explores some of history''s most innovative artists and their spiritual investigations into this realm and the next. I was entranced from start to finish, as she takes us on both a personal and artistic journey across time and across the globe. The Other Side is an exhilarating read'' KATY HESSEL, author of THE STORY OF ART WITHOUT MEN

It''s not so long ago that a woman''s expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee - without repercussion. The fact that so many radical women artists of their generation - and earlier - also drank deeply from the same spiritual well has for too long been sorely neglected.

In THE OTHER SIDE, we explore the lives and work of a group of extraord