Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss
Hilma af Klint was a Swedish abstract artist who was deemed by the Nazis to produce degenerate art. She had ordered the bulk of her works to remain outside the public view for decades after she died. Her greatest fame has come after the works have recently come into view. She lived in a patriarchal time in Sweden and adopted strong counter-cultural views. She was one of the few women to persist in getting an appropriate education and doing things that were thought to be reserved for men. She had views of fluid sexuality and spiritualism. She was willing to tackle taboo subject matter. The bulk of her well known works were abstract. The biography presents her from a distance, and portrays an original, "different" artist.
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