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