While the origins of the western school of art in which the images created are non-referential – are not created in response to specific objects in external physical reality, but instead in response to inner emotional, psychological and intellectual reality – that is generally referred to as Abstract Art, but also, by some of its practitioners, as Concrete Art, are generally located in the early decades of the 20th century and traced to Wassily Kandinsky, an exhibition held in Munich in 2018-19, for which this book is the catalogue, begs to differ.  "Completely independent of one another, Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884) in England, Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) in Sweden, and Emma Kunz (1892–1963) in Switzerland each developed their own abstract visual language highly charged with meaning."  More HERE.

This is an amazong book that we sold in the shop, but is now, sadly, out of print. :(...

The first detailed survey of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s groundbreaking Tree of Knowledge series

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge at David Zwirner, New York, in 2021 and David Zwirner, London, in 2022, this book features a text by the art historian Susan Aberth examining af Klint’s spiritual and theosophical influences. With a conversation between curator Helen Molesworth and the US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo discussing connections between Tree of Knowledge and Native theories, the publication broadens the scope of philosophical interpretations of af Klint's timeless work. Also included is a newly commissioned essay by the celebrated af Klint scholar Julia Voss, a contribution by the artist Suzan Frecon, and a text by art historian Max Rosenberg that further develops the conversation around why af Klint’s work was not recognized in its time.

Learn all about it and get a look of plenty of interior pages at the publisher''s page for it, HERE.