First published in 2018. This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition on the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) titled 'Hilma af Klint: paintings for the future' in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States, from October 12, 2018 to April, 23, 2019. Within the arc of her production from naturalistic work in the 1890s to watercolours in the 1940s, the book and exhibition focuses on the period 1906-1920. Hilma af Klint created a body of work known as 'The paintings for the temple' that broke from the dominant painting style and are primarily abstract. Her early arrival at abstraction - before modernists as Vasily Kandinsky and Piet Mondriaan - is a radical effort to find visual expression for a transcendent, spiritual reality beyond the observable world. Contains: Temples for painting / Tracey Bashkoff : Act for another future: learning form Hilma af Klint : a conversation among artists, curators, and art historians / moderated by Helen Molesworth with Christine Burgin, Leah Dickerman, Lisa Florman, Josiah McElheny, R.H. Quaytman, and Amy Sillman : The travelling Hilma af Klint / Julia Voss :
Paintings for the future [pictures of her work ordered on theme or series, interspersed with the following articles]: Questioning the spiritueal in art: Hilma af Klint, Vasily Kandinsky, and the Swedish art world / Andrea Kollnitz : Hilma af Klint and the Swedish folk art revival / Vivien Greene : 'The world keeps you in fetters: cast them aside' : Hilma af Klint, spiritualism, and agency / David Max Horowitz : Hilma af Klint, diagrammer / Briony Fer : Science and occultism in Hilma af Klint's time and in her work / Tessel M. Bauduin : Another canon, or Why have there been no great women artists? / Daniel Birnbaum :
List of works in the exhibition : Chronology of the live of Hilma af Klint / Ylva Hillström, revised and expanded by Julia Voss : Selected exhibition history : Selected bibliography.