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Notes and Methods

Autor Hilma af Klint Editat de Christine Burgin Introducere de Iris Müller-Westermann
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 sep 2018

Observăm în ultimii ani o redescoperire necesară a figurii lui Hilma af Klint, însă Notes and Methods se distinge de monografiile clasice printr-o abordare metodologică unică: este un instrument de lucru care ne permite să urmărim procesul cognitiv și spiritual al artistei direct prin propriile sale însemnări. Ceea ce diferențiază acest volum de alte lucrări este accesul nemediat la textele sale originale, oferind prima traducere în engleză a jurnalelor care au fundamentat limbajul vizual abstract cu mult înaintea contemporanilor săi masculini. Ca și Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, lucrarea acoperă perioada de pionierat a abstracției, dar cu o metodologie bazată pe documente primare — facsimiluri și adnotări — mai degrabă decât pe analiză curatorială externă. Găsim în structura cărții o progresie riguroasă: de la studiile timpurii despre flori și licheni, la complexitatea seriei „Atomul” și, esențial, la „Caietele Albastre”, cataloagele pe care artista le-a creat pentru a-și sistematiza seria „Picturi pentru Templu”. Spre deosebire de Hilma AF Klint: Landscapes, Portraits and Miscellaneous Work, care se concentrează pe catalogarea exhaustivă a picturilor, Notes and Methods funcționează ca o cheie de descifrare, incluzând chiar și dicționarul de termeni și simboluri creat de Klint pentru a-și explica viziunile teozofice. Este o resursă de cercetare neprețuită care transformă receptarea operei sale dintr-o experiență pur estetică într-una intelectuală și hermeneutică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226591933
ISBN-10: 022659193X
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 300 color plates
Dimensiuni: 191 x 254 x 28 mm
Greutate: 1.01 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor, artiștilor și pasionaților de istoria artei care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele din spatele primelor opere abstracte. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care studiul naturii și misticismul au fuzionat într-un sistem teoretic coerent. Este mai mult decât un album de artă; este un ghid de descifrare a unui univers vizual complex, oferit chiar de creatoarea sa.


Despre autor

Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) a fost o artistă suedeză vizionară, considerată astăzi pionieră a artei abstracte. Absolventă a Academiei Regale de Arte din Stockholm, a început prin a picta peisaje și studii botanice convenționale. Evoluția sa către abstracție a fost strâns legată de apartenența la grupul „The Five” și de interesul pentru teozofie și antroposofie. Deși a creat un corpus masiv de lucrări între 1906 și 1915, a cerut ca acestea să nu fie expuse public timp de 20 de ani după moartea sa, convinsă fiind că lumea nu este încă pregătită pentru mesajul lor spiritual. Opera sa redefineste astăzi istoria modernismului european.


Descriere scurtă

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 af 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 of 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. This extraordinary collection is edited by and copublished with Christine Burgin, and features an introduction by Iris Müller-Westermann. It will stand as an important and timely contribution to the legacy of Hilma af Klint.

Notă biografică

Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) was a Swedish painter. While her naturalistic landscapes were shown during her lifetime, her abstract paintings were not exhibited until 1986, more than forty years after she died.

Cuprins

Introduction
The Five
The Blue Books / Translated from Swedish by Kerstin Lind Bonnier and Elizabeth Clark Wessel
The Atom Series / Translated from Swedish by Kerstin Lind Bonnier and Elizabeth Clark Wessel
Flowers, Mosses, and Lichens / Translated from German by Anne Posten
Letters and Words Pertaining to Works by Hilma af Klint / Translated from Swedish by Kerstin Lind Bonnier and Elizabeth Clark Wessel
Afterword / Johan af Klint
Acknowledgments

Recenzii

“The remarkable, welcome thing about Burgin’s Notes and Methods is that it lets af Klint speak for herself. . . . In book form, unified in size and material, and made intimate and flippable, the paintings reveal themselves differently than they do when hung on a wall and interrupted by architecture: they take on an overall rhythm, and the shifts between abstraction and figuration become fluid rather than clunky.”

“Presents comprehensive English translations of (af Klint’s) enigmatic writings. . . . Bring(s) nuance to our understanding of the artist’s biography and her formal achievements. . . . Taken together, the notebooks and paintings are evidence of a prodigiously curious mind, one riveted by the mathematical precision of geometry and also stirred by earthly and unearthly creatures.”

“What a remarkable intellectual and aesthetic feast it is! Multifaceted, rich in the history of both art and spirituality, the book presents the abstract work of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. Klint is known for having produced abstract art many years in advance of the formal Abstract art movement. Notes and Methods not only reproduces her strikingly immersive artwork but also brings to life its unexpected spiritual underpinnings in the Theosophy movement.”
 

“The book broadens an understanding of af Klint’s visual vocabulary from the late 1800s through the first two decades of the 1900s. The dominance of images provides the reader with the breadth of her artistic concerns and some of the underlying structures in her work. The book also expounds on af Klint’s myriad interests in science, mathematics, esotericism, and mysticism. Art history is only now beginning to dig deeper into af Klint’s life and work. This book and the Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition catalog Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (2018) will be the definitive texts on the artist for years to come.”

"An invaluable research resource."