Kurt Almquist, Louise Belfrage (eds.), Hilma af Klint. The Art of Seeing the Invi- sible, Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation , 2015
My paper rethinks Hilma af Klint's esoteric or mediumistic art practice in terms of scientificall... more My paper rethinks Hilma af Klint's esoteric or mediumistic art practice in terms of scientifically wellknown academic systems of organizing knowledge around 1900, the most important ones among them grammars and diagrams. The artist has thus been able to translate the "higher powers'" dictates into ornamental forms and scriptings. Her mediumistic art practice has by no means been a weak one as some art historian would argue. On the contrary, it critically reflects the hegemonic effectivity of an operating system and its explicit and implicit hierarchical orders through the use of a given language and representational forms. Most importantly, the artist made use of her botanical expertise only to experiment with abstract graphical ways to express processes and transformations in contrast to displaying an object's properties.
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