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A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish
painter. The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was 44
years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she
had been trained. While her naturalistic landscapes and botanicals
were shown during her lifetime, her body of radical, abstract works
never received the same attention. Today, it is widely accepted
that af Klint produced the earliest abstract paintings by a trained
European artist. But this is only part of her story. Not only was
she a successful woman artist, but she was also an avowed
clairvoyant and mystic. Like many of the artists at the turn of the
twentieth century who developed some version of abstract painting,
af Klint studied Theosophy, which holds that science, art, and
religion are all reflections of an underlying life-form that can be
harnessed through meditation, study, and experimentation. Well
before Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich declared themselves the
inventors of abstraction, af Klint was working in a
non-representational mode, producing a powerful visual language
that continues to speak to audiences today. The exhibition of her
work in 2018 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City attracted
more than 600,000 visitors, making it the most-attended show in the
history of the museum/institution. Despite her enormous popularity,
there has not yet been a biography of af Klint-until now. Inspired
by her first encounter with the artist's work in 2008, Julia Voss
set out to learn Swedish and research af Klint's life-not only who
the artist was but what drove and inspired her. The result is a
fascinating biography of an artist who is as great as she is
enigmatic.
"Psychologist and sexologist Dania Schiftan says it is possible for
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empowers women with tools to explore their bodies, achieve better
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psychotherapist Dania Schiftan shares her ten-step program for
women to increase sexual responsiveness and deepen their awareness
of their body's sensations, leading to more satisfying orgasms
through penetration, the ability to control when and how to orgasm,
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Schiftan imparts real client stories to show how readers can talk
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lives. Orgasms often provoke questions. With her ten-step plan,
Schiftan brings light to the dark and shows how to have more fun
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After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the
remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed
off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While
at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced
another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, Carl Seelig,
Walser's friend and literary executor, visited and accompanied him
on these walks, meticulously recording their conversations. As they
strolled, Walser told stories, shared his daily experiences of the
sanatorium, and expressed his opinions about books and art, writing
and history. When Seelig asked why he no longer wrote, Walser
famously replied: "I'm not here to write, I'm here to be mad."
Filled with lively anecdotes and details, Walks with Walser offers
the fullest available account of this wonderful writer's inner and
outer life.
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