Friday, March 29, 2019

Did Hilma Af Klint Invent Abstract Art? Not Really

Susan Tallman: “The claim for af Klint as an inventor of abstract art runs into two serious problems. The first is that it doesn’t seem to match how she thought the work should function. The second is that abstraction was ‘invented’ in the same sense that the Western Hemisphere was ‘discovered.'” – The New York Review of Books



Article source here:Arts Journal

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