Hilma Af Klint - Artist, Researcher, Medium

Author(s): Hatje Cantz Verlag

MODERN ART | ARTS, DARKLY | ESOTERIC | HATJE CANTZ

Once considered an outsider artist, after her show at the Guggenheim Museum was seen by more than half-a-mil-lion visitors, Hilma af Klint firmly established her place in art history. She has also been the subject of documenta-ry films and biographies. In 2013, Iris Müller-Westermann organized the first institutional exhibition of af Klint's work. Now she presents us with the latest information and research in an extensive survey show at the Moder-na Museet in Malmö. Of crucial importance is the issue of spirituality in af Klint's painting-how she managed to translate both the material and the immaterial world into a pictorial vision. The accompanying exhibition catalogue is the first to investigate, from a variety of perspectives, the question of how this trailblazing abstract artist linked her painting to a higher consciousness. Essays by leading historians of theosophy and a quantum physicist, among others, provide enlightening insight into a world in which both the visualization of atoms and spiritual séances alike became artistic material-a world that fascinates us even more than ever.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9783775747400
  • : Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG
  • : Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG
  • : July 2020
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Hatje Cantz Verlag
  • : Paperback
  • : 2007
  • : 272