6 Best biography books like Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future by Hilma af Klint

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Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future

By: Hilma af Klint

4.53

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Hilma af Klint's daring abstractions exert a mystical magnetism When Swedish artist Hilma af Kli…

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Cover of Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

1. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

By: Warsan Shire

4.25

Format: 37 pages, Paperback

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more

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  • womens
  • nonfiction
"Her body is one long sigh."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

"No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

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2. And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

By: Kiersten White

3.82

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

No one expects a princess to be brutal. And Lada Dragwyla likes it that way. Ever since she and … read more

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"No!"

-Kiersten White, And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

"A brother,"

-Kiersten White, And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

"I am yours,"

-Kiersten White, And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

"Did you do this?"

-Kiersten White, And I Darken (The Conqueror's Saga, #1)

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3. Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

By: William Walker Atkinson , Three Initiates , Tre Iniziati

4.25

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

The precepts of Hermetic philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more than 2,000 years, clouded… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • spirituality
"The lips of Wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations...."

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

"Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the …"

-William Walker Atkinson, Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

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4. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

By: Lawrence Wright

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief book and Hilma af Klint's Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

5. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

By: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya , Anna Summers , Keith Gessen

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

The literary event of Halloween: a book of otherworldly power from Russia's preeminent contemporary… read more

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6. The Muralist

By: B.A. Shapiro

5.00

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

From the author of theNew York Times bestsellerThe Art Forgercomes a thrilling new novel of art, hi… read more

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7. Concerning the Spiritual in Art

By: Wassily Kandinsky

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this … read more

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8. The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images

By: None , None

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Reflections on symbols and symbolic imagery The Book of Symbolscombines original and incisive essay… read more

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9. 2023: a trilogy

By: None

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Well we're back again, They never kicked us out, twenty thousand years of SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT Down t… read more

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10. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

By: Stephen Greenblatt

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work… read more

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11. The Taiga Syndrome

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

3.48

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a cou… read more

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"...in the same way, just like being in love, being out of love also ends one day."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"In fairy tales, the wolf is always ferocious. Astute and agile, the wolf always figures out how to get its way. … The Wolf, in other words, always wins."

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"Places where sex is sold are the same everywhere. They always have a viewing window or something similar: a bar, a walkway, a stage where you can see bodies and, if permitted, feel them. It has to be…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

"Failures weigh people down. Writing reports of all the cases I was unable to solve, however, had helped me to tell stories, or at least get them down on paper, as they say. Whether I was obeying or t…"

-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

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12. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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13. The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

By: Jennifer Higgie

4.08

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH'Illuminating in every sense of the w… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • womens
Cover of Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss

14. Hilma af Klint: A Biography

By: Julia Voss

4.29

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter.   The Swedish painter … read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • womens
Cover of Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel

15. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

By: Mary Gabriel

4.52

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night by Jerry Saltz

16. Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night

By: Jerry Saltz

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist: a deliciously readabl… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • essays
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17. Bread and Water

By: Eileen Myles

4.33

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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18. Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future

By: Hilma af Klint

4.53

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Hilma af Klint's daring abstractions exert a mystical magnetism When Swedish artist Hilma af Kli… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • essays
  • design
  • womens
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19. Lee Krasner

By: Eleanor Nairne

4.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A richly illustrated monograph on the life and work of Lee Krasner, one of the twentieth century’s … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of World Receivers: Georgiana Houghton - Hilma af Klint - Emma Kunz by Karin Althaus

20. World Receivers: Georgiana Houghton - Hilma af Klint - Emma Kunz

By: Karin Althaus

4.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky. Completely independently from each ot… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • spirituality
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21. Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me

By: Joan Mitchell

4.35

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

I carry my landscapes around with me focuses on American abstract artist Joan Mitchell’s large-scal… read more

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  • art

6 Top womens books like Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future by Hilma af Klint

Transform Your Habits

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Warsan Shire

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Story of Art Without Men

Katy Hessel

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

Jennifer Higgie

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Hilma af Klint: A Biography

Julia Voss

4.29

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Transform Your Habits

Story of the Eye

Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

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Simple Passion

Annie Ernaux

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

Olga Ravn

3.67

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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