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Hilma af Klint : notes and methods /

At the turn of the century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich or Piet Mondrian, acknowledged fathers of twentieth-century abstraction. L...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 (Author)
Other Authors: Burgin, Christine (Editor), Klint, Johan af (writer of afterword.), Bonnier, Kerstin Lind (Translator), Wessel, Elizabeth Clark (Translator), Posten, Anne (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Includes translations from the Swedish and the German.
Published: New York : Chicago : Christine Burgin ; University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Klint, Hilma af, > 1862-1944 > Aesthetics.
Painting, Abstract > Sweden.
Spirit art > Sweden.
Spirituality in art.
Painting, Abstract > Sweden > Pictorial works.
Table of Contents:
  • The Five Notebook HaK s-9
  • The "Blue" Notebooks: HaK 1171
  • HaK 1180 / translated from Swedish by Kerstin Lind Bonnier and Elizabeth Clark Wessel
  • The Atom Series: HaK inventory TK / translated from Swedish by Kerstin Lind Bonnier and Elizabeth Clark Wessel
  • Flowers, mosses and lichen: Notebook HaK 588 / translated from German by Anne Posten
  • Letters and words pertaining to works by Hilma af Klint: Notebook HaK 1040 / translated from Swedish by Kerstin Lind Bonnier and Elizabeth Clark Wessel.