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Attention bookstores! 'Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future' is Back in Stock from @guggenheim !!⁠ ⁠ When the Swedish artist 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 20 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.⁠ ⁠ Published to accompany the first major survey exhibition of the artist's work in the US, '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.⁠ ⁠ Edited with text by Tracey Bashkoff. Contributions by Tessel M. Bauduin, @daniel.birnbaum Briony Fer, Vivien Greene, David Max Horowitz, Andrea Kollnitz, @hmolesworth & Julia Voss @spiraltemple⁠ ⁠ #hilmaafklint #paintingsforthefuture #hilmaafklintpaintingsforthetemple⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CbpnoYTOttB/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Back in Stock!! 'Hilma af Klint: The Paintings for the Temple 1906–1915' (Catalogue Raisonné Volume II) from @bokforlagetstolpe⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ The second installment in an epic and authoritative seven-volume Hilma af Klint catalogue raisonné: the pioneering abstractionist's beloved 'The Paintings for the Temple series'⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Between 1906 and 1915, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created 193 paintings that she would title 'The Paintings for the Temple.' Colorful, mostly abstract, with biomorphic imagery, these works expressed af Klint’s mediumistic vision of spiritual reality, which she hoped would ultimately be installed in a round temple for true spiritual comprehension and enlightenment. Since the internationally acclaimed Guggenheim exhibition of 2018-19, these works have come to number among her most popular, defining and beloved.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ This handsomely produced clothbound volume collects these paintings in the second of a projected and collectible seven-volume catalogue raisonné that will present the entirety of af Klint’s work in its dazzling totality for the first time. Produced in cooperation with the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, it features introductions by Daniel Birnbaum, former head of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, and architect of the grand af Klint exhibitions between 2013 and 2019, and Kurt Almqvist, President of the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @daniel.birnbaum⁠⁠ @the_hilma_af_klint_foundation⁠⁠ @hilmaafklintofficial #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth #hilmaafklint #hilma #hilmaafklintcatrais #hilmaafklintpaintingsforthetemple #paintingsforthetemple https://www.instagram.com/p/COLiGkLJe03/?igshid=qg3o9qex2f74

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She got there first. Spreads from 'Hilma af Klint: Spiritualistic Drawings 1896–1905,' Catalogue Raisonné Volume I. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ The drawings in this first volume of a new catalogue raisonné represent an intense ten-year period of Hilma af Klint’s (1862-1944) life that would lay the foundation for her later achievements. In 1896, af Klint and four other women formed The Five, a group steeped in the spiritualist beliefs permeating Europe at that time, including theosophy, Rosicrucianism and other strains of liberal religious thought. From 1896 to 1907, The Five engaged in a daily systematic method of spiritual experimentation. During séances, Hilma af Klint drew automatic spiritual sketches based on the messages that the medium (not always the same member) communicated from the spirits the group summoned. The elaborate system of symbols, geometry and biological imagery that characterize her work all find their origin during this period.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Published by @bokforlagetstolpe⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @daniel.birnbaum⁠⁠ @the_hilma_af_klint_foundation⁠⁠ @hilmaafklintofficial #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth #hilmaafklint #hilma #hilmaafklintcatrais #hilmaafklintpaintingsforthetemple #paintingsforthetemple https://www.instagram.com/p/CMUjRttpDp_/?igshid=761s34imz0om

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Images from 'Hilma af Klint: The Paintings for the Temple: 1906–1915,' Catalogue Raisonné Volume II, out now from @bokforlagetstolpe⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Between 1906 and 1915, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created 193 paintings that she would title 'The Paintings for the Temple.' Colorful, mostly abstract, with biomorphic imagery, these works expressed af Klint’s mediumistic vision of spiritual reality, which she hoped would ultimately be installed in a round temple for true spiritual comprehension and enlightenment. Since the internationally acclaimed @guggenheim exhibition of 2018-19, these works have come to number among her most popular, defining and beloved.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ This handsomely produced clothbound volume collects these paintings in the second of a projected and collectible seven-volume catalogue raisonné that will present the entirety of af Klint’s work in its dazzling totality for the first time. Produced in cooperation with the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, it features introductions by Daniel Birnbaum, former head of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, and architect of the grand af Klint exhibitions between 2013 and 2019, and Kurt Almqvist, President of the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @daniel.birnbaum⁠⁠ @the_hilma_af_klint_foundation⁠⁠ @hilmaafklintofficial #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth #hilmaafklint #hilma #hilmaafklintcatrais #hilmaafklintpaintingsforthetemple #paintingsforthetemple https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSkhtjJvsL/?igshid=35ev821y2sal

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Talk about Women's History… Check out these spreads from 'Hilma af Klint: The Paintings for the Temple 1906–1915,' the second installment in Bokförlaget Stolpe's monumental and historic seven-volume Hilma af Klint catalogue raisonné (releasing throughout the coming year before the complete, slipcased collection becomes available in Spring 2022) and the book in this series that collects the artist's most beloved work—much of which was created mediumistically, for a future "spiralling architectural structure that would be built to house" them, according to co-editors Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birnbaum. "The whole sequence can perhaps be understood as af Klint’s pursuit of an original 'oneness'" they write, "a basic unity which she believed existed at the world’s creation. Af Klint felt this integrity had since been lost, giving way to a world of polarities: good and evil, woman and man, matter and spirit. She saw these dichotomies as having become the principle of all life. The different series within The Paintings for the Temple individually try to reconcile these divisions—each with their own scale, aesthetic, and theme—while simultaneously revealing her many influences from the time in which she painted."⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Also available through independent bookstores: 'Hilma af Klint: Spiritualistic Drawings 1896–1905, Catalogue Raisonné Volume I' and 'Hilma af Klint: The Blue Books, Catalogue Raisonné Volume III'⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @bokforlagetstolpe⁠⁠ @daniel.birnbaum⁠⁠ @the_hilma_af_klint_foundation⁠⁠ @hilmaafklintofficial⁠⁠ #hilmaafklint #hilmaafklintpaintingsforthetemple #paintingsforthetemple #hilmaafklintcatrais #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSKqNtpRVk/?igshid=90x2ffyklw1g