Hilma af Klint

  Accompanying the first major survey exhibition of the artist's work in the United  States,  Hilma af Klint  represents her groundbreaking painting series while expanding  recent scholarship to present the fullest picture yet of the artist's life and work.  Essays explore the social, intellectual, and artistic milieu of af Klint's 1906 break with  figuration and her subsequent development, placing her in the context of Swedish  modernism and folk art traditions, contemporary scientific discoveries, and spiritualist  and occult movements. A roundtable discussion among contemporary artists, scholars,  and curators considers af Klint's sources and relevance to art in the 21st century. The  volume also delves into her unrealized plans for a spiral-shaped temple in which to  display her art - a wish that finds a fortuitous answer in the Guggenheim Museum's  rotunda, the site of the forthcoming exhibition.