fb pixcode

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 280 pgs / 200 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 23   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775734899 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CDN $79.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
NA LA

THE SPRING 2024 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our Spring 2024 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

HATJE CANTZ

Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction

Edited by Iris Müller-Westermann. Text by David Lomas, Iris Müller-Westermann, Pascal Rousseau, Helmut Zander, et al.

Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of AbstractionJust before her death in 1944 at the age of 81, the Swedish painter and mystic Hilma af Klint stipulated that her paintings were not to be publicly exhibited for 20 years. In fact, another 40-plus years were to pass before inklings of her vast oeuvre began to reach public consciousness, with the landmark 1987 exhibition and book The Spiritual in Art. Since then, critics, artists and historians have praised her with ever-increasing awe, and today af Klint’s paintings, watercolors and sketches--numbering over 1,000 in total--have never looked so contemporary, presaging as they do the works of Beatriz Milhazes, Elizabeth Murray and Tal R., and Agnes Martin, Emma Kunz and Arthur Dove before them. For af Klint herself, as a medium for an art she was despairingly unable to comprehend, contemporaneity was irrelevant: her work--much of which was dictated by a spirit guide named Ananda--unfolded in complete ignorance of Kandinsky, Malevich or Mondrian, who likewise practised an abstraction informed by theosophy and occult philosophy. Af Klint’s abstractions preceded those of Kandinsky, who is usually credited with inventing abstract painting: as early as 1906, she was devising large-scale canvases filled with grids, circles, spirals and petal-like forms--sometimes diagrammatic, sometimes biomorphic. She was painting watercolor monochromes in 1916, and making automatic drawings long before the Surrealists. This monumental 280-page monograph, with 200 color plates, is the first full Hilma af Klint overview. A landmark publication, it not only reveals the moving lucidity of her art, but challenges the narrative of abstract art in the twentieth century.

Featured image is reproduced from Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction.

Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/16/2013

Herbert Pfostl Weighs In on the Best of 2013

Herbert Pfostl Weighs In on the Best of 2013

Herbert Pfostl, the New Museum Store's inimitable curator and book buyer, is at it again—compiling sophisticated and provocative book lists for the compulsively curious. His Best of 2013 list features quite a few gems from the ARTBOOK | D.A.P. list, including Hatje Cantz's essential Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction, The Jewish Theater Stockholm's Marguerite Duras: MD, MER. Paper Kunsthalle's Words and Coins: From Ancient Greece to Byzantium, Dust-to-Digital's Pictues of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980-1980, Snoeck's Adam Helms, Max Ström's The Worlds of August Strindberg and Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais' Carnet de Carnets de Gisèle Freund.
continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/19/2013

Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction

Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction

When Moderna Museet, Stockholm, mounted the first major retrospective of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) last April, all the world took note, for this little known artist turns out to have been one of the truly great artists of the twentieth century. Astonishingly, in her will, af Klint herself had had forbidden her heirs to exhibit her most challenging abstract works until long after her death—so sure was she that her contemporaries would not understand their meaning. Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction is one of our most exciting exhibition catalogs of the year, as well as one of our top Holiday Gift Books of 2013. Featured image is "The Swan, No. 12," from the SUW/UW Series, created October, 1914 – May, 1915. continue to blog


HILMA AF KLINT MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Hilma af Klint and The Five’s Sketchbooks

HILMA AF KLINT AND THE FIVE’S SKETCHBOOKS

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189425415
USD $35.00
| CAN $47

Pub Date: 4/5/2022
Active | In stock


The Mission and Message of Hilma af Klint

THE MISSION AND MESSAGE OF HILMA AF KLINT

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069961
USD $35.00
| CAN $47

Pub Date: 1/21/2025
Forthcoming


Hilma af Klint: Occult Painter and Abstract Pioneer

HILMA AF KLINT: OCCULT PAINTER AND ABSTRACT PIONEER

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069473
USD $45.00
| CAN $61

Pub Date: 5/4/2021
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: Artist, Researcher, Medium

HILMA AF KLINT: ARTIST, RESEARCHER, MEDIUM

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775747400
USD $55.00
| CAN $77

Pub Date: 6/16/2020
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: The Paintings for the Temple 1906–1915

HILMA AF KLINT: THE PAINTINGS FOR THE TEMPLE 1906–1915

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069114
USD $50.00
| CAN $70

Pub Date: 2/2/2021
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: Seeing Is Believing

HILMA AF KLINT: SEEING IS BELIEVING

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069183
USD $35.00
| CAN $49

Pub Date: 11/24/2020
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: The Art of Seeing the Invisible

HILMA AF KLINT: THE ART OF SEEING THE INVISIBLE

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069176
USD $45.00
| CAN $63

Pub Date: 2/23/2021
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: The Blue Books

HILMA AF KLINT: THE BLUE BOOKS

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069244
USD $50.00
| CAN $70

Pub Date: 2/9/2021
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: Spiritualistic Drawings 1896–1905

HILMA AF KLINT: SPIRITUALISTIC DRAWINGS 1896–1905

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069237
USD $50.00
| CAN $70

Pub Date: 3/9/2021
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: Parsifal and the Atom 1916–1917

HILMA AF KLINT: PARSIFAL AND THE ATOM 1916–1917

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069251
USD $50.00
| CAN $70

Pub Date: 8/10/2021
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: Geometric Series and Other Works 1917–1920

HILMA AF KLINT: GEOMETRIC SERIES AND OTHER WORKS 1917–1920

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069268
USD $45.00
| CAN $63

Pub Date: 2/8/2022
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: Late Watercolours 1922–1941

HILMA AF KLINT: LATE WATERCOLOURS 1922–1941

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069275
USD $50.00
| CAN $70

Pub Date: 9/28/2021
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: Landscapes, Portraits and Miscellaneous Works 1886–1940

HILMA AF KLINT: LANDSCAPES, PORTRAITS AND MISCELLANEOUS WORKS 1886–1940

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069282
USD $45.00
| CAN $63

Pub Date: 11/1/2022
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint: The Complete Catalogue Raisonné

HILMA AF KLINT: THE COMPLETE CATALOGUE RAISONNé

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789198523669
USD $350.00
| CAN $490

Pub Date: 5/2/2023
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint Blue Notebook

HILMA AF KLINT BLUE NOTEBOOK

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069213
USD $24.95
| CAN $34.95

Pub Date: 2/11/2020
Active | In stock


Hilma af Klint Orange Notebook

HILMA AF KLINT ORANGE NOTEBOOK

Bokförlaget Stolpe

ISBN: 9789189069220
USD $24.95
| CAN $34.95

Pub Date: 2/11/2020
Active | In stock