Thought Forms (book)
Thought Forms was a book written by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater in 1901 on the titular subject of Thought-Forms.
Writing of the book
Publication history
Influence on art
Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, and other artists were heavily influenced by this book.
The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts held a 3-day workshop with lectures by Richard Flores and Kevin Wallace on April 12-14, 2013:
This three-day workshop is based upon Thought Forms, the 1901 book by Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater that inspired Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee and countless other artists. Participants will explore the ideas that pre-date and inspired abstract painting through insights into the processes of seeing and recording impressions in form and color.[1]
Popular usage of the term
Thought Forms is also the name of a 3-piece band from Wiltshire, England, with albums released on Invada Records. An illustration from the book appears, inverted, on their website.[2]
Additional resources
- Lachman, Gary. “Kandinsky's Thought Forms and the Occult Roots of Modern Art.” Quest 96.2 (March-April, 2008): 57-61.
Notes
- ↑ "Thought Forms," Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts at Beatrice Wood Center website. Accessed January 13, 2016.
- ↑ "Our Favourite Records of 2015." Weblog entry dated December 31, 2015. Located at this website. Accessed January 13, 2016.