Description: Hilma af Klint : Paintings for the Future, Hardcover by Af Klint, Hilma (CON); Bashkoff, Tracey (EDT), ISBN 0892075430, ISBN-13 9780892075430, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Hilma af Klints daring abstractions exert a mystical magnetism
When Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than 1,000 paintings and works on paper that she had kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready for her art, she stipulated that it should remain unseen for another 20 years. But only in recent decades has the public had a chance to reckon with af Klints radically abstract painting practice—one which predates the work of Vasily Kandinsky and other artists widely considered trailblazers of modernist abstraction. Her boldly colorful works, many of them large-scale, reflect an ambitious, spiritually informed attempt to chart an invisible, totalizing world order through a synthesis of natural and geometric forms, textual elements and esoteric symbolism.
Accompanying the first major survey exhibition of the artists work in the United States, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future represents her groundbreaking painting series while expanding recent scholarship to present the fullest picture yet of her life and art. Essays explore the social, intellectual and artistic context of af Klints 1906 break with figuration and her subsequent development, placing her in the context of Swedish modernism and folk art traditions, contemporary scientific discoveries, and spiritualist and occult movements. A roundtable discussion among contemporary artists, scholars and curators considers af Klints sources and relevance to art in the 21st century. The volume also delves into her unrealized plans for a spiral-shaped temple in which to display her art—a wish that finds a fortuitous answer in the Guggenheim Museums rotunda, the site of the exhibition.
Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. Though her paintings were not seen publicly until 1987, her work from the early 20th century predates the first purely abstract paintings by Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich.
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Book Title: Hilma Af Klint: Paintings for the Future
Number of Pages: 244 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R.
Publication Year: 2018
Topic: Individual Artists / Monographs, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, European
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 46.5 Oz
Author: Hilma Af Klint
Item Length: 11.6 in
Item Width: 8.8 in
Format: Hardcover
