{"title":"Books by Hilma af Klint","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9789189425415","title":"Hilma Af Klint and the Five’s Sketchbooks","description":"Hilma af Klint was part of a group of female friends who called themselves ‘The Five’, which was active between 1896 and 1908. Together with Anna Cassel, Cornelia Cederberg, Sigrid Hedman, and Mathilda Nilsson, af Klint had been a member of the ‘Edelweiss Society’ – a group that combined Christian ideas, Theosophy, and Spiritualism. The Five received messages from higher spirits that they called the High Masters, and during their seances they documented the messages in trance-like states with automatic writing and drawing. There are 15 sketchbooks from this period, and Bokförlaget Stolpe are now making three of them (S2 HaK 1515, S6 HaK 1519 and S13 HaK 1526) available in a reproduction edition. The sketchbooks will be sold together in a slipcase.  Hilma af Klint, 1862–1944.   Anna Cassel, 1860–1937.   Cornelia Cederberg, 1854–1933.Sigrid Hedman, 1855–1922.   Mathilda Nilsson, 1844–1923.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43127901978802,"sku":"9789189425415","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9789189425415_fa068fb1-6e67-41be-8546-53a46823b723.jpg?v=1786032150"},{"product_id":"9781644230848","title":"Hilma Af Klint","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first detailed survey of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eTree of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e series \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Revelatory and sublime. . . . Her work remains conceptually open enough for viewers to draw their own conclusions, insert their own meaning and feel transported to other glorious worlds.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century, af Klint was a pioneer of abstraction. Her first forays into nonobjective painting preceded the work of Kandinsky and Mondrian and radically mined the fields of science and religion. Deeply interested in spiritualism and philosophy, af Klint developed an iconography that explores esoteric concepts in metaphysics, as demonstrated in \u003ci\u003eTree of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e. This rarely seen series of works on paper renders orbital, enigmatic forms, visual allegories of unification and separateness, darkness and light, beginning and end, life and death, and spirit and matter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Published on the occasion of the exhibition \u003ci\u003eHilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e at David Zwirner, New York, in 2021 and David Zwirner, London, in 2022, this book features a text by the art historian Susan Aberth examining af Klint’s spiritual and theosophical influences. With a conversation between curator Helen Molesworth and the US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo discussing connections between \u003ci\u003eTree of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e and Native theories, the publication broadens the scope of philosophical interpretations of af Klint's timeless work. Also included is a newly commissioned essay by the celebrated af Klint scholar Julia Voss, a contribution by the artist Suzan Frecon, and a text by art historian Max Rosenberg that further develops the conversation around why af Klint’s work was not recognized in its time.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128612749490,"sku":"9781644230848","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644230848_d19603ed-e9f3-410a-bb83-8cce5d801164.jpg?v=1786024376"},{"product_id":"9780226591933","title":"Notes and Methods","description":"At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian. Many consider her the first trained artist to create abstract paintings. With Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods, we get to experience the arc of Klint’s artistic investigation in her own words.   Hilma af Klint studied at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm where she was part of the first generation of female students. Up until the beginning of the century, she painted mainly landscapes and detailed botanical studies. Her work from this period was that of a young artist of her time who meticulously observed the world around her. But, like many of her contemporaries, af Klint was also interested in the invisible relationships that shape our world, believing strongly in a spiritual dimension. She joined the Theosophical Society, and, with four fellow female members who together called themselves “The Five,” began to study mediumship.  Between 1906 and 1915, purportedly guided by a higher power, af Klint created 193 individual works that, in both scale and scope of imagery, are like no other art created at that time.  Botanically inspired images and mystical symbols, diagrams, words and geometric series, all form part af Klint’s abstract language. These abstract techniques would not be seen again until years later.   Notes and Methods presents facsimile reproductions of a wide array of af Klint’s early notebooks accompanied by the first English translation of af Klint’s extensive writings. It contains the rarely seen “Blue Notebooks,” hand-painted and annotated catalogues af Klint created of her most famous series “Paintings for the Temple,” and a dictionary compiled by af Klint of the words and letters found in her work. An introduction by Iris Müller-Westermann illuminates this unique and important contribution to the legacy of Hilma af Klint.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56228362813813,"sku":"9780226591933","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226591933_7cd55494-1f6a-4d90-9c1b-354288020237.jpg?v=1786012590"},{"product_id":"9781644230695","title":"The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint","description":"\u003cb\u003eA moving biography, told in vivid illustrations, this graphic novel features key moments in the life of Swedish artist and pioneer of abstract painting Hilma af Klint (1862–1944). Long underrecognized, af Klint has been amid a sensational rediscovery that continues to take art audiences by storm.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtist Philipp Deines traces the story of now world-famous af Klint’s unique life and groundbreaking oeuvre through five chapters featuring her development as an artist, her family background, and her relationship to the spiritual. Highlighting how she came to her distinctive paintings, her spiritual quest, and the friends who helped her, this is a story of the strength it took af Klint to continue as an artist against all odds.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Beautifully drawn, brightly colored, and well researched, this graphic novel is a new way of looking at the story of an artist. Referencing Julia Voss’s new biography of af Klint, Deines presents an accessible and lively introduction for many ages. Biography, art history, and contemporary narrative style merge and complement each other in this magnificent visual world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302122107253,"sku":"9781644230695","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644230695_ececc2f2-a1f7-4c65-9dab-78d546c3f0fd.jpg?v=1786024364"},{"product_id":"hilma-af-klint-landscapes-portraits-and-miscellaneous-works-1877-1941","title":"Hilma af Klint: Landscapes, Portraits and Miscellaneous Works 1877-1941","description":"Hilma af Klint was classically trained, with a degree from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. This volume shows yet another side of Hilma af Klint’s multifaceted artistry and presents her as painter of landscapes, portraits, and botanical specimens. Although landscapes and portraits are not her most famous pieces, they remain important to her collection of works. This volume includes almost 400 works and a biographical essay written by the German author and art historian Julia Voss.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492225950069,"sku":"9789189069282","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9789189069282.jpg?v=1786529055"},{"product_id":"hilma-af-klint-catalogue-raisonne","title":"Hilma af Klint: Catalogue Raisonné","description":"Not all artists’ oeuvre can, will, or deserve to be collected in a Catalogue Raisonné. But Hilma af Klint’s art not only deserves it – it demands it – since her oeuvre holds a message and reveals a philosophy. For the first time ever, the reader will be able to review Hilma af Klint’s work in the order she herself established in 1938, in this historical document divided into seven volumes.The paintings are presented in the order her friend anthroposophist Olof Sundström eventually numbered them in 1945, on assignment by Erik af Klint (1901–1981). Erik af Klint was the sole heir to af Klint’s oeuvre, as well as the sole donor to and founder of the Hilma af Klint Foundation in 1972.The works are printed in an exclusive edition designed by Patric Leo. The series is produced in cooperation with the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, and features introductions by Daniel Birnbaum and Kurt Almqvist. The final volume includes a biographical essay on Hilma af Klint by the German author Julia Voss. More and more Hilma af Klint appears as one of Sweden’s most fascinating artists. ‘Here we can all follow the chronological development and hopefully understand a bit more about af Klint’s elusive, esoteric image-world. It is a tool that facilitates research, and fundamentally establishes the artist’s work – all in all, a true deed for culture.’ Birgitta Rubin, Dagens Nyheter","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510204965237,"sku":"9789198523669","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9789198523669.jpg?v=1787130540"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-hilma-af-klint.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}