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. :(...