Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future by Julia Voss

Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future examines the lives and art of two pioneers of abstraction at the turn of the twentieth century. Wassily Kandinsky has often been credited with making the first abstract artwork, but renewed study of Hilma af Klint’s non-figurative paintings has called that designation into question.

Af Klint biographer and scholar Julia Voss and curator and writer Daniel Birnbaum explore the artists’ nearly parallel moves away from figuration and toward mystical visions of art. More than 100 illustrations support an account of the affinities and differences between their lives and work.

BY: Julia Voss and Daniel Birnbaum

FORMAT: Paperback, 208 pages

LANGUAGE: English

PUBLISHER: David Zwirner Books