Hilma af Klint : A Biography /

A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was 44 years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained. While her naturalistic landscapes and botanicals were shown during her lifetime, her...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Voss, Julia (Autor)
Otros Autores: Posten, Anne (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022]
Temas:
Painters > Sweden > Biography.
Women painters > Sweden > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
female artist, clairvoyant, mystic, abstract art, sweden, nonfiction, radical, convention, biography, nonrepresentational mode, abstraction, malevich, mondrian, kandinsky, experimentation, meditation, religion, science, theosophy, spirituality, philosophy, guggenheim museum, exhibition, mysticism, modernity, women, gender fluidity, spiritualism, stockholm, cosmopolitan.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Note from the Translator
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • Part One Family, Childhood, and Youth in Stockholm
  • 1. Mary Wollstonecraft Visits Sweden and Is Upset
  • 2. Birth
  • 3. School and Religion
  • 4. An Exhibition in London
  • 5. Bertha Valerius and the Dead
  • 6. Kerstin Cardon's Painting School
  • 7. Hermina's Death
  • Part Two Study at the Academy and Independent Work
  • 1. The Academy
  • 2. Guardian Spirit
  • 3. The Prize
  • 4. Anna Cassel
  • 5. "My First Experience with Mediumship"
  • 6. The Young Artist
  • 7. Dr. Helleday and Love
  • 8. The Five
  • 9. Art from the Orient
  • 10. Rose and Cross
  • 11. At the Veterinary Institute
  • 12. Children's Books and Decorative Art
  • 13. Italy
  • 14. Genius
  • Part Three Paintings for the Temple
  • 1. Old Images
  • 2. Revolution
  • 3. Primordial Chaos
  • 4. Eros
  • 5. Medium
  • 6. The Ten Largest
  • 7. "I Was the Instrument of Ecstasy"
  • 8. Rudolf Steiner Visits Sweden
  • 9. The Young Ones
  • 10. Sigrid Lancén
  • 11. The Association of Swedish Women Artists
  • 12. Frank Heyman
  • 13. Island Kingdom in Mälaren
  • 14. First Exhibition with the Theosophists
  • 15. Tree of Knowledge
  • 16. The Kiss
  • 17. Singoalla
  • 18. The Baltic Exhibition
  • 19. War
  • 20. Saint George
  • 21. Kandinsky in Stockholm
  • 22. Parsifal and Atom
  • 23. The Studio on Munsö
  • 24. Thomasine Anderson
  • Part Four Dornach, Amsterdam, and London
  • 1. The Suitcase Museum
  • 2. Flowers, Mosses, and Lichens
  • 3. First Visit to the Goetheanum
  • 4. "Belongs to the Astral World According to Doctor Steiner"
  • 5. The Fire and the Letter
  • 6. Amsterdam
  • 7. London
  • Part Five Temple and Later Years
  • 1. The Temple and the Spiral
  • 2. +x
  • 3. A Temple in New York
  • 4. The London Blitz
  • 5. Future Woman
  • 6. National Socialism
  • 7. Lecture in Stockholm
  • 8. "Degenerate" Art in Germany and Abstract Art in New York
  • 9. Tyra Kleen and the Plan for a Museum
  • 10 Last Months
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Afterword by Johan af Klint
  • Afterword by Ulrika af Klint
  • Appendix 1. Hilma af Klint's Travels and Places of Residence
  • Appendix 2. The Library of Hilma af Klint
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustration Sources
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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