Culture and occulture : Idea analysis of spirituality in contemporary art

The aim of this thesis is to get a deeper understanding for the term “spirituality” in art and culture, as well as to understand how ideas from the esoteric field have come to inspire contemporary artists today. I am also interested in how contemporary artists make use of ideas from the esoteric field and how they perceive spirituality in their artistry. The study also explores how spirituality and the esoteric field in art is discussed by the academic fields. This thesis also makes use of the theory of “occulture” as an analytical tool in the study of ideas in art and culture by Christopher Partridge, to understand if occulture can be understood as an everyday and ordinary phenomenon in art and culture.