Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers Photography and the intricacy of the

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anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on the Indian subcontinent’s emergence and demographic configuration as a region in the 1950s

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Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers Photography and the intricacy of theAf Klints exquisitely rendered botanical portfolio reveals a deep spiritual engagement with the flora of her native Sweden Across the spring and summer seasons of 1919 and 1920, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint engaged in a period of intense observation of nature, venturing into forests and fields and drawing the flowers she found there. The resulting 46 sheets comprise her Nature Studies portfolio, recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New