Hilma af Klint, paintings for the future, Tracey Bashkoff
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Hilma af Klint, paintings for the future, Tracey Bashkoff
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-239)
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contains biographical information
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illustrations
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no index present
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non fiction
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Hilma af Klint
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catalogsbibliography
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1039986487
Responsibility statement
Tracey Bashkoff
Sub title
paintings for the future
Summary
"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 twenty years. But only in recent decades has the public had a chance to reckon with af Klint's 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 artist's 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 Klint's 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 Klint's 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 Museum's rotunda, the site of the exhibition."--Publisher's description
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Paintings for the future
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- Painting, Swedish -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Catalogues d'exposition
- Painting, Swedish -- Exhibitions -- 20th century
- Exhibition catalogs
- ART + General
- Painting, Abstract -- Sweden -- Exhibitions -- 20th century
- Klint, Hilma af
- Women artists -- Sweden -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944
- Women artists -- Sweden -- Exhibitions -- 20th century
- Spirituality in art -- Exhibitions
- Women artists -- Sweden -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Painting, Swedish -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Women artists -- Sweden -- Exhibitions -- 19th century
- Nonfiction
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 -- Expositions
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Painting, Swedish -- Exhibitions -- 19th century
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 -- Exhibitions
- Mysticism and art -- Exhibitions
- Klint, Hilma af, -- Themes, motives
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 -- Themes, motives
- Painting, Abstract -- Sweden -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Klint, Hilma af, -- Criticism and interpretation
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- Painting, Swedish -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Catalogues d'exposition
- Painting, Swedish -- Exhibitions -- 20th century
- Exhibition catalogs
- ART + General
- Painting, Abstract -- Sweden -- Exhibitions -- 20th century
- Klint, Hilma af
- Women artists -- Sweden -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944
- Women artists -- Sweden -- Exhibitions -- 20th century
- Spirituality in art -- Exhibitions
- Women artists -- Sweden -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Painting, Swedish -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Women artists -- Sweden -- Exhibitions -- 19th century
- Nonfiction
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 -- Expositions
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Painting, Swedish -- Exhibitions -- 19th century
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 -- Exhibitions
- Mysticism and art -- Exhibitions
- Klint, Hilma af, -- Themes, motives
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 -- Themes, motives
- Painting, Abstract -- Sweden -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
- Klint, Hilma af, -- Criticism and interpretation
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