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Artists and the Spirit World

The Essay

Jennifer Higgie re-evaluates the influence of spiritualism on the art of the past 150 years and asks why so many artists are turning to mysticism again now.

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    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

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