A Dark Muse by Gary Lachman
This book explores how occult, mystical and esoteric currents quietly shaped Western art and literature from the late 19th century into the modernist period, arguing that spiritual search, magic and theosophical ideas were central to movements like Symbolism, Surrealism and abstraction. Through portraits of artists, writers and occult figures—ranging from Blake and Yeats to Kandinsky, Mondrian, Crowley and the theosophists—it traces threads connecting personal biography, ritual and metaphysical belief to stylistic experiment and innovation. Lively and well-documented, it reframes the history of modern art by presenting the occult not as marginal eccentricity but as a driving creative force.
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