中文简介：

希尔玛·阿夫·克林特（Hilma af Klint）是20世纪抽象主义的先驱，她早于康定斯基和蒙德里安的作品对富有想象力的非客观绘画进行了首次尝试，并从根本上挖掘了科学和宗教领域。阿夫·克林特对精神主义和哲学有着浓厚的兴趣，她开发了一种探索形而上学深奥概念的图像学，正如《知识之树》所展示的那样。这幅水彩画系列描绘了轨道、神秘的形式、统一与分离、黑暗与光明、开始与结束、生命与死亡、精神与物质等视觉寓言。

本书由艺术史学家Susan Aberth撰文，探讨了阿夫·克林特的精神和人类学的影响。策展人Helen Molesworth和美国桂冠诗人Joy Harjo之间的对话，讨论了《知识之树》和关于植物知识的本土理论之间的联系，该出版物增加了对阿夫·克林特作品哲学解释的内容。此外，还包括知名阿夫·克林特学者Julia Voss新近委托撰写的文章，艺术家Suzan Frecon的贡献，以及艺术史学家Max Rosenberg的文字，进一步发展了围绕阿夫·克林特的作品为什么在其时代没有被认可的对话。

英文简介：

One of the most inventive artists of the twentieth century, Hilma af Klint was a pioneer of abstraction. Her first forays into her imaginative non-objective painting long preceded the work of Kandinsky and Mondrian and radically mined the fields of science and religion. Deeply interested in spiritualism and philosophy, af Klint developed an iconography that explores esoteric concepts in metaphysics, as demonstrated in Tree of Knowledge. This rarely seen series of watercolors renders orbital, enigmatic forms, visual allegories of unification and separateness, darkness and light, beginning and end, life and death, and spirit and matter.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hilma af Klint: Tree of Knowledge at David Zwirner New York in 2021 and David Zwirner London in 2022, this catalogue features a text by the art historian Susan Aberth examining af Klint's spiritual and anthroposophical influences. With a conversation between the curator Helen Molesworth and the US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo discussing connections between Tree of Knowledge and native theories about plant knowledge, the publication broadens the scope of philosophical interpretations of af Klint's timeless work. Also included is a newly commissioned essay by the celebrated af Klint scholar Julia Voss, a contribution by the artist Suzan Frecon, and a text by art historian Max Rosenberg that further develops the conversation around why af Klint's work was not recognized in its time.