HILMA AF KINT

FANT, AKE

ISBN 10: 9189069471 / ISBN 13: 9789189069473

Published by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HILMA AF KINT
• Publisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9189069471
• ISBN 13: 9789189069473
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: NEW

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Synopsis

Hilma af Klint is nowadays regarded as one of the Abstract Art pioneers.

She painted more than 1200 works before her death in 1944, but never showed them publicly outside her anthropological and occult circles. After twenty years of artistry, she developed a distinct abstract style, and devoted the rest of her life to a grand painterly mission. The spiritual aspect was the most important starting point for Hilma af Klint, just as it was for her contemporaries Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian. These early modernists were influenced by the then-contemporary occult writers like Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant, C.W. Leadbeater, and certainly af Klint’s spiritual leader Rudolf Steiner.
 

This book is a reprint, first published in 1989 in collaboration with The Hilma af Klint Foundation, and also served as the exhibition catalogue for the big exhibition, with the same title, at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. ‘ …a brilliant presentation and analysis by Åke Fant. The magnitude of this text is the apparent critical approach that includes the biography, the works review, and the investigation of role models of Hilma’s dual thoughts and spiritual exercises.’ (Göteborgs-Posten)

About the Author

Åke Fant (1943–1997) was a university lecturer, art historian and sculptor. He is still widely recognised as the foremost expert on Hilma af Klint’s body of work, and the one who implemented the first full study of the works.