Hilma af Klint

Book ID:
8384
Title:
Hilma af Klint
Subtitle:
The Art of Seeing the Invisible
Author:
'af Klint, Hilma', 'Almqvist, Kurt', 'Bauduin, Tessel M', 'Bax, Marty', 'Belfrage, Louise', 'Birnbaum, Daniel', 'Fer, Briony', 'Ferentinou, Victoria', 'Hanegraaff, Wouter J.', 'Kern, Stephen', 'Lachman, Gary', 'Lomas, David', 'Loreck, Hanne', 'Muller-Westermann, Iris', 'Pasi, Marco', 'Rosenberg, Raphael', 'Sallstrom, Pehr', 'Sandqvist, Gertrud', 'VARIOUS', 'Wagner, Christoph', 'Zander, Helmut', 'Zumdick, Wolfgang'
ISBN number:
9789189672710
Publisher name:
Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation
Place of publication:
Stockholm, Sweden
Edition number:
1st
Book type:
Hardback
First edition date:
2015
Pages:
347
Dewey decimal number:
133.9 VAR
Dust jacket:
No
Language:
English
Photographs:
Yes
Illustrations:
Yes
Bibliography:
No
Height (cm):
28
Width (cm):
22.5
Notes:

Lectures given in conjunction with the exhibition Hilma af Klint - A Pioneer of Abstraction, held at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Engelsberg Manor in Sweden, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin and the Museum of Modern Art in Louisiana, Denmark in 2013 and 2014, and at the Serpentine Galleries in London in 2016.

Includes numerous reproductions of Hilma af Klint's paintings, as well as some of Ithell Colquhoun's paintings.

Donated and inscribed by Tessel Bauduin (one of the authors, who also researched the Richel Collection for the Museum).

CONTENTS:

Kurt Almqvist and Louise Belfrage, Hilma af Klint in Historical Context

Briony Fer, Hilma af Klint and Abstraction

Stephen Kern, Hilma af Klint and Fin-de-Siecle Culture: Abstraction, Technology, Androgyny, Nihilism

Gary Lachman, Modernity and the Occult

Helmut Zander, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner and the Zeitgeist of Historicism around 1900

Raphael Rosenberg, Was There a First Abstract Painter? Af Klint's Amimetic Images and Kandinsky's Abstract Art

Marco Pasi, Hilma af Klint, Western Esotericism and the Problem of Modern Artistic Creativity

Christoph Wagner, Occultism and Abstract Art: Itten, Kandinsky, Malevich

Marty Bax, Piet Mondrian and the Legacy of Western Esotericism

Tessel M. Bauduin, Psychic Automatism in Early Surrealism

Victoria Ferentinou, Theosophy, Women Artists and Modernism: The Case of Ithell Colquhoun

Iris Muller-Westermann, Hilma af Klint in Her Time and Ours

David Lomas, The Meaning of "Life": Hilma af Klint's 'The Ten Largest'

Hanne Loreck, Spiritual Alphabeticism

Pehr Sallstrom, J.W. Goethe's Approach to Colour in Art

Wolfgang Zumdick, Finding the Inner Form: Pathways to Hilma af Klint's Change from Outer to Inner Experience

Gertrud Sandqvist, The Great Affirmation

Daniel Birnbaum, Afterword