Main entry:

Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944, artist.

Title & Author:

Hilma af Klint : paintings for the future / Tracey Bashkoff.

Publication:

New York, NY : Guggenheim, [2018]
©2018

Description:

243 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held October 12, 2018-April 23, 2019 at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
"From October 12, 2018, to April 23, 2019, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the first major solo exhibition in the United States of the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944)"--From Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum website, accessed January 25, 2019.
"First printing"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-239).
Temples for paintings / Tracey Bashkoff -- Art for another future: learning from Hilma af Klint / moderated by Helen Molesworth -- The traveling Hilma af Klint / Julia Voss -- Paintings for the future : [Essays] : Questioning the spiritual in art: Hilma af Klint, Vasily Kandinsky, and the Swedish art world / Andrea Kollnitz -- Hilma af Klint and the Swedish folk art revival / Vivien Greene -- "The world keeps you in fetters; cast them aside": Hilma af Klint, spiritualism, and agency / David Max Horowitz -- Hilma af Klint, diagrammer / Briony Fer -- Science and occultism in Hilma af Klint's time and in her work / Tessel M. Bauduin -- Another canon, or Why have there been no great women artists? / Daniel Birnbaum -- Plates : Figurative works -- Collective works of The Five -- The WU/Rose series: Primordial chaos and The eros series -- Untitled series: The ten largest -- The WUS/Seven-pointed star series: The Seven-pointed star and evolution -- The W series: Tree of knowledge -- The SUW/UW series: The swan and The dove -- Altarpieces -- The Parsifal series -- The atom series -- Series I-V -- On the viewing of flowers and trees -- Late watercolors -- Chronology / Ylva Hillström, with Julia Voss.
Text in English.

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.

Copyright status:

Copyright ©2018 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 2018 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

ISBN:

9780892075430 (hardcover)
0892075430 (hardcover)

Subject:

Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 Exhibitions.
Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 Criticism and interpretation.
Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 Themes, motives.
Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944. Paintings. Selections. 2018.
Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944.
Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944 Expositions.
Klint, Hilma af,
Klint, Hilma af, Criticism and interpretation.
Klint, Hilma af, Themes, motives.
Klint, Hilma af 1862-1944
Painting, Swedish 19th century Exhibitions.
Painting, Swedish 20th century Exhibitions.
Painting, Abstract Sweden 20th century Exhibitions.
Women artists Sweden 19th century Exhibitions.
Women artists Sweden 20th century Exhibitions.
Mysticism and art Exhibitions.
Spirituality in art Exhibitions.
Peinture suédoise 19e siècle Expositions.
Peinture suédoise 20e siècle Expositions.
Peinture abstraite Suède 20e siècle Expositions.
Femmes artistes Suède 19e siècle Expositions.
Femmes artistes Suède 20e siècle Expositions.
Mysticisme et art Expositions.
Spiritualité dans l'art Expositions.
ART General.
Painting, Swedish Exhibitions. 19th century.
Painting, Swedish Exhibitions. 20th century.
Painting, Abstract Sweden Exhibitions. 20th century.
Women artists Sweden Exhibitions. 19th century.
Women artists Sweden Exhibitions. 20th century.
Women artists
Themes, motives
Painting, Swedish
Painting, Abstract
Mysticism and art
Spirituality in art
Sweden

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Bashkoff, Tracey R., author.
Molesworth, Helen, 1966- contributor.
Voss, Julia, 1974- contributor.
Kollnitz, Andrea, 1970- contributor.
Greene, Vivien, contributor.
Horowitz, David Max, contributor.
Fer, Briony, contributor.
Bauduin, Tessel M., contributor.
Birnbaum, Daniel, 1963- contributor.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
United States New York (State) New York.

Paintings for the future

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304002
Call No.: BIB 249506
Status: Available