Research Catalog

Title

Hilma af Klint : visionary / editors, Kurt Almqvist & Louise Belfrage.

Publication

Stockholm, Sweden : Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944.
• Almqvist, Kurt
• Belfrage, Louise

Description

124 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

At the turn of the twentieth century, the spiritual and social movements Theosophy and later Anthroposophy became a strong source of inspiration for the pioneers of modernism and abstract art: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich - and Hilma af Klint. In 1906, the Swedish artist began painting her first abstract series, Primordial Chaos, featuring blue, green and yellow geometrical shapes and spirals. Her main work, Paintings for the Temple, expresses what she calls the higher truth: unity beyond duality and the material world and mankind's spiritual evolution. What was the zeitgeist that inspired such an eruption in art? This anthology, based on a seminar held at the Guggenheim museum at the opening of their acclaimed exhibition Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future in October 2018, elaborates on this cultural phenomenon. Kurt Almqvist is President of the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit, where Louise Belfrage is a project manager. Daniel Birnbaum is the fomer Director of the Moderna Museet. Julia Voss is a Fellow at Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute of Advanced Studies. Tracey Bashkoff is Senior Curator, Collections and Exhibitions, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim.

Alternative Title

Visionary

Subject

• Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 > Criticism and interpretation
• Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944
• Mysticism and art
• Spirituality in art

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / Kurt Almqvist and Louise Belfrage -- Introduction: the incredible legacy of Himla af Klint / Daniel Birnbaum -- Five things to know about Hilma af Klint / Julia Voss -- Parallel visionaries: Hilla Rebay and Hilma af Klint / Tracey Bashkoff -- New York City, 1875-the birth of theosophy / Isaac Lubelsky -- Hilma af Klint and the invisible in her occult and scientific context / Linda Dalrymple Henderson -- Afterthought forms-theosophy in modern and contemporary art / Marco Pasi

Call Number

JQF 21-514

ISBN

• 9789163972034
• 9163972034

OCLC

1158628623

Title

Hilma af Klint : visionary / editors, Kurt Almqvist & Louise Belfrage.

Publisher

Stockholm, Sweden : Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2020.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944. Paintings. Selections.

Almqvist, Kurt, editor.

Belfrage, Louise, editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-514