FIVE LIVES OF HILMA AF KLINT GN

Artist Philipp Deines traces the story of now world-famous af Klint's unique life and groundbreaking oeuvre through five chapters featuring her development as an artist, her family background, and her relationship to the spiritual. Highlighting how she came to her distinctive paintings, her spiritual quest, and the friends who helped her, this is a story of the strength it took af Klint to continue as an artist against all odds.;Beautifully drawn, brightly colored, and well researched, this graphic novel is a new way of looking at the story of an artist. Biography, art history, and contemporary narrative style merge and complement each other in this magnificent visual world. (STL222426) (C: 0-1-1)