Table of Contents

Messages
Directors' foreword
Preface

ESSAYS
Hilma af Klint: the secret growing Sue Cramer
Hilma af Klint, painter and revolutionary mystic Julia Voss
A wonderful linguistic system: Hilma af Klint's notebooks and text paintings Nicholas Chambers
Becoming one again: the role gender in the creation and reception of Hilma af Klint's art Jennifer HiggieV
Hilma af Klint: receiver/received Aaron Lister
THE PLATES

List of exhibited works Notes
Select bibliography

Hilma af Klint: a chronology Julia Voss
Afterword Johan af Klint

Acknowledgments Contributors Image credits

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About the Author

Sue Cramer is curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne where her exhibitions and publications include Cubism and Australian art 2009 (co-curated with Lesley Harding) and Less is more: minimal and post-minimal art in Australia 2012. Sue has worked previously at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (exhibitions co-ordinator/curator); Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (director); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (curator); and as the art critic for The Age newspaper in Melbourne. In addition to writing exhibition catalogues she has contributed several articles to international and Australian journals.

Nicholas Chambers is senior curator modern and contemporary international art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. His exhibitions and associated publications at the Gallery include Adman: Warhol before pop (2018) and Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection (2016). Chambers has previously worked as Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, USA, as well as an adjunct professor at the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he worked at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art as curator of international art.

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian novelist, screenwriter, art critic and editor of the London-based contemporary arts magazine, Frieze.

Aaron Lister is senior curator at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi in Aotearoa New Zealand. He was previously exhibitions curator at the National Library of New Zealand, a lecturer in the art history departments of Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago and has worked as an independent curator and writer.

Julia Voss is a scholar in history of science, art history, and picture theory, Hilma af Klint biographer and executive editor of the visual arts section of the large German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.