World receivers : Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and John Whitney, James Whitney, Ha...
World receivers : Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and John Whitney, James Whitney, Ha...
World receivers : Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and John Whitney, James Whitney, Harry Smith / edited by Karin Althaus, Matthias Mühling, Sebastian Schneider, Lenbachhaus Munich.
About this item
Full title
Publisher
Munich : Lenbachhaus : Hirmer, [2018]
Call Numbers
GQ 2019/0338
Record Identifier
MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
276 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 27 cm
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
Munich : Lenbachhaus : Hirmer, [2018]
Edition
English trade edition.
Date Published
[2018]
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Summary
"Abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky. Completely independently from each other, Georgiana Houghton (1814-1884) in England, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) in Sweden and Emma Kunz (1892-1963) in Switzerland developed an individual, abstract pictorial language. What they had in common was a desire to make visible the laws of natur...
Alternative Titles
Full title
World receivers : Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and John Whitney, James Whitney, Harry Smith / edited by Karin Althaus, Matthias Mühling, Sebastian Schneider, Lenbachhaus Munich.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944, artist.
Kunz, Emma, 1892-1963, artist.
Whitney, John, Sr., 1917-1995, filmmaker.
Whitney, James, 1921-1982, filmmaker.
Smith, Harry Everett, 1923-1991, filmmaker.
Althaus, Karin, editor.
Mühling, Matthias, editor.
Schneider, Sebastian, editor.
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München., host institution.
Notes
General note
Catalog of an exhibition held at Lenbachhaus from November 6, 2018-March 10, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
©2018
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
GQ 2019/0338
Record Identifier
74VKVBo0D37O
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVBo0D37O
Other Identifiers
ISBN
9783777431574 English trade edition
3777431575 English trade edition
DDC
709.034
MMS ID
991024241613402626
