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Transforming Art magazine was published in Australia between 1986 and 1997. It explored many dimensions of art and creativity, art and spirituality, the transformative potential of art. It had a special focus on the meaning and importance of art deriving from the spiritual science of Rudolf Steiner. 

Volume 1 Number 1

1986

• The Crisis in the Arts by Mark           Baxter.

• Art as Reflection and Prophecy:      An interview with sculptor Tom      Bass. 

• A Musical Philosophy of                Australian Landscape by                Graham Pont. 

• Creativity: A Way to the Self by      Nigel Hoffmann. 

• Information Resource

Volume 1 Number 2

1986

• On Cultivating the Spirit by Chas      Read. 

• The Source of Creative Power           by Scott Washington. 

• The Nostalgia for Paradise: An      interview with mosaic artist           Mary Hall. 

• The Piano as Microcosm of           Musical Space by Dane                Rudhyar. 

• Reviews & Information                     Resource

Volume 2 Number 1

1987

• Wholeness and Natural Science:           An interview with Dr Jochen                Bochemühl. 

• Creative Fields by Jane     Reeves. 

• On the Emergence of Planet Art:         An interview with José Argüelles.  

• Rock and Roll, Ecstatic Transform-     ation and Shamanism by Shaun           McNiff. 

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 3 Number 1

1988

•The Arts and a Post Material Culture      by Charles Johnston. 

• Thoughts on Creating: An interview           with artist David Wansbrough.

• The Nature and Power of Creating;           compiled by Dickinson Crompton.

• In Search of Sacred Painting by John      Lane.

• Future Art Forms - High Technology      and Art: an interview with Ian                Fredricks. 

• Six Levels of Art Activity by Dane           Rudhyar. . 

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 2 Number 2

1987

• What is Art For? by Suzi Gablik.

• Creativity and a Creation-Centred      Spirituality by Veronica Green. 

• Holonomics - A Science/Art by           Nigel Hoffmann.

• The Art and Spirit of a                     Community: An interview with Ronaldo Cameron. 

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 3 Number 2

1989

•The Essential Radiance by Peter             Brook. 

• Simply Sounding: An interview                 with artist/performer Colin Offord.

• Three Australian Women Sculptors;           Larissa Smagarinsky, Gaye                   Evans, Margel Hinder.

• The Painter Paints Reality by Peter       Rogers.

• Thoughts on Creating. 

• The House as Centre by Harry                   Remde. 

• Living Architecture: An interview with       architects Gregory Burgess and             David Mayes. 

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 3 Number 4

1990

•Dance of the Heart: An interview with       Ruth Galene. 

• The Arts and Planetary Survival by          Denys Trussell.

• This Earth: What She is to Me by            Susan Griffin.

• The Shared Symbolic Order by                 Heather Ellyard.

• New Verse: Australia and Overseas. 

• Collaborate, Design or Die! by Ann            Martin. 

• A City is a Living Thing by David            Week. 

• Community Arts in Western Sydney          by Marla Guppy.

• Thoughts on Creating. 

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 3 Number 5

1991

• Artists' Communities by Nigel                   Hoffmann. 

• The Rebirth of Central Europe by          Georg Kuhlewind.

• The Muse Revisited by Mihai Tropa.

• Central European Verse.

• Organic Architecture in Europe: An       interview with Imre Makovecz.

• The Gate of the Cemetery, Kaposvar:       Design Notes by Ferenc Lorincz. 

• Mankind and Architecture by David       Morgan. 

• The Future of Czech Theatre: An             interview with Petr Oslzly. 

• Theatre with a Slavic Soul: An                   interview with Katerina Ivak.

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 1 Number 3

1986

• The Spirit of Contemporary Stained           Glass by Terrance Plowright.

• Art: A New Understanding; From the           School of Cultural and Traditional           Studies.

• The Traditions of Wholeness in                     Architecture: An interview with Keith          Critchlow. 

• Transcending the Division between Art      and Science by Anthony Corones. 

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 2 Number 3

1987

• Harmonic Convergence - An Account      by Maggie MacKenzie. 

• Thoughts on Creating.

• Art and Ritual: An interview with                aboriginal artist Burri Dhungatti. 

• Being the Planet by William Prescott. 

• Conservation and Spirit of Place by           Chris Farmer. 

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 3 Number 3

1989

• Theatre and Culture by Antonin                Artaud.

• A Sense of Fabric and Fibre: An                Interview with Ann and Kathleen           Berney.

• The Clearing of Vision by Amanda           Yorke.

• Intuition into Form: An interview with       architect Feiko Bouman.

• The Work of the Gardner by Jeremy         Naydler. 

• New Verse: Australian and                       Overseas. 

• Three Recent Australian Initiatives

• Thoughts on Creating: Art and                Beauty

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 4 Number 1

1992

• Listening to the Land: An interview       with author James Cowan. 

• The Ground Beneath my Feet by           Patti Miller. 

• Australian Landscape as a Spiritual      Problem by David Tacey.  

• Luddism in Music by Lesley White.

• Reflections by composer Ross             Edwards.  

• Inner Vision: The Traditional View of      Art by Stephen Cross.

• Ecology and Narrative by Marilyn         Dennes.

• Exploring the Burning House: An         interview with painter Liz Coats.

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 4 Number 2

1994

• Sculpting with Water: An interview         with architect and fountain                designer Robert Woodward. 

• Bachelard's Alchemical                          Imagination by Joanne Stroud. 

• Reveries in Murky Waters by Alain      Dublemortier.  

• Streamwatch by Renato Ramsay.

• Restoring the Waters by Barbara           Schaffer.  

• The Flowform Method by John           Wilkes.

• The Adventures of Dew by Mario           Satz.

• Water Symbolism, Wholeness &           Creativity by Anne Buttimer.

• The Healing Waters: An interview           with Christian Community priest           Rosalind Pecover.

• Squinting through Mirages by poet      Jean Kent. 

• Reviews & Information Resource

Volume 4 Number 3

1997

• The Total Art of Teaching: An                   interview with Annika Jaensch and       Liz Korobacz.

• The City as a Work of Art by John             Ellison.

• Articulate Senses - The Total                   Artwork by Julia White.

• Village for the Living Arts by Barbara       Powell-Weise.

• Art and Environment - Stories and             Physical and Conceptual                        Integration by Malcolm                         McKinnon. 

• Collaborate, Design or Die! by Ann            Martin. 

• Nature as Art by Nigel Hoffmann. 

• Thoughts on Creating: The Total             Work of Art.

• Transforming Total Art by Graham             Pont. 

• Contemporary Art, Joseph Beuys &           The Second Goetheanum by                  Marion Briggs.

• The Goetheanum in Dornach as an            Example of the Integration of the          Arts by Willy Rotzler.

• The Inner Art - The Creation of                   Human Life & Destiny: An                   Interview  with Yehuda Tagar.

• Reviews & Information Resource.

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