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Hilma af Klint : Konsten att se det osynliga
Swedish / Svenska
- GenresNonfiction
1 pages, Hardcover
Published December 9, 2020
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July 2, 2024
A bit disappointing for what looked from the outside like a promising monograph. Like 70% of it is talking about random adjacent movements to Hilma’s and sort of cultural philosophies/contextualising. Well written as some of it is, I don’t care really care about all the random theorising about other artists and movements - I’m interested in Hilma and how her brain worked.
What I would LOVE from a Hilma monograph is a documentation of all her works, alongside with the bit of science/philosophy/theosophy she was likely chewing through, photos of her sketchbook scribbling away ideas.
In order for you to appreciate an artists handling of a subject, it’s helpful to know what that subject actually is. Yet she seems to not get the dignity of most artists who are allowed this framework, shes often characterised as this crackpot spiritualist who may or may not have been onto something.
What to me is was so radical about her and so different to her contemporaries was that her concerns were not merely aesthetic, she was as much a scientific thinker as well as an artist, using her visual medium to telegraph the science/spirituality of her day. So let that have its place in the book.
What I would LOVE from a Hilma monograph is a documentation of all her works, alongside with the bit of science/philosophy/theosophy she was likely chewing through, photos of her sketchbook scribbling away ideas.
In order for you to appreciate an artists handling of a subject, it’s helpful to know what that subject actually is. Yet she seems to not get the dignity of most artists who are allowed this framework, shes often characterised as this crackpot spiritualist who may or may not have been onto something.
What to me is was so radical about her and so different to her contemporaries was that her concerns were not merely aesthetic, she was as much a scientific thinker as well as an artist, using her visual medium to telegraph the science/spirituality of her day. So let that have its place in the book.
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