{"product_id":"hilma-af-klint-a-biography-9780226689760","title":"Hilma af Klint: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eA highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter.  The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (18621944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical  abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before. Today  it is widely accepted that af Klint was one of the earliest abstract academic painters in Europe.  But this is only part of her story. Not only was she a working female artist  she was also an avowed clairvoyant and mystic. Like many of the artists at the turn of the twentieth century who developed some version of abstract painting  af Klint studied Theosophy  which holds that science  art  and religion are all reflections of an underlying life-form that can be harnessed through meditation  study  and experimentation. Well before Kandinsky  Mondrian  and Malevich declared themselves the inventors of abstraction  af Klint was working in a nonrepresentational mode  producing a powerful visual language that continues to speak to audiences today. The exhibition of her work in 2018 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City attracted more than 600 000 visitors  making it the most-attended show in the history of the institution.  Despite her enormous popularity  there has not yet been a biography of af Klintuntil now. Inspired by her first encounter with the artists work in 2008  Julia Voss set out to learn Swedish and research af Klints lifenot only who the artist was but what drove and inspired her. The result is a fascinating biography of an artist who is as great as she is enigmatic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666035433525,"sku":"ByrdShop_022668976X","price":54.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226689760.jpg?v=1782416195","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hilma-af-klint-a-biography-9780226689760","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}