The Sounding Cosmos - Sixten Ringbom

The Sounding Cosmos: A Study in the Spiritualism of Kandinsky and the Genesis of Abstract Painting by Sixten Ringbom / ISBN 9789189425354 / 430-page hardcover, 7 x 9.75 inches, published by Bokförlaget Stolpe / the book is mostly text but has many images throughout as well (including lots from Annie Besant's Thought Forms) *** Long unavailable and highly sought after, Ringbom's classic 1970 volume launched the study of esotericism's influence on abstract art For many years, relatively few people knew of spiritualism’s impact on the birth of abstract art. But when the Finnish art historian Sixten Ringbom’s book The Sounding Cosmos was published in 1970, the writing of history changed forever. Through his research on Wassily Kandinsky, one of the pivotal figures in modern art, Ringbom showed how Theosophy and esoteric teachings were absolutely essential to the development of nonfigurative painting. This discovery generated great debate at the time, and the book was both celebrated and co