Concerning
the Spiritual in Art
Wassily Kandinsky
One of the most significant books to be written by an artist in the
past 100 years.
Paperback. Reprinted 1977 |
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Kandinsky
(Masters of Art (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.).)
by Thomas M. Messer
from Harry N Abrams
Kandinsky
and Old Russia : The Artist As Ethnographer and Shaman
Peg Weiss
Hardcover / Published 1995
Point
and Line to Plane
Wassily Kandinsky, Hilla Rebay (Designer)
Paperback / Published 1979
Delivery sometimes delayed.
Sounds
Wassily Kandinsky, Elizabeth R. Napier (Contributor)
Hardcover - 136 pages (December 1981)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300025106
Sounds
Wassily Kandinsky, Elizabeth R. Napier (Translator)
Paperback / Published 1981
Vasily
Kandinsky : A Colorful Life : The Collection of the Lenbachhaus, Munich
Vivian Endicott Barnett, et al
Hardcover / Published 1996
Wassily
Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter
Annegret Hoberg
Hardcover / Published 1995
Wassily
Kandinsky 1866-1944 : A Revolution in Painting (Basic Series)
Hajo Duchting
Paperback / Published 1996
Wassily
Kandinsky 1866-1944 : The Journey to Abstraction (Big Series : Art)
Ulrike Becks-Malorny
Paperback / Published 1996
Kandinsky : Watercolours and Other Works on Paper
Frank Whitford
Vasily Kandinsky was one of the most pivotal figures in the development
of modernist painting. He was born in the mid 19th-century, and by the
time of his death in 1944 he had played a key role in revolutionizing the
nature of European painting, and laying the groundwork for future movements.
Most significant among his contributions to high modernism are his involvements
with the Blue Rider group, Russian constructivism, and the later years
of the Bauhaus. By the end of 1910 Kandinsky had developed a purely abstract
style--arguably one of the first--in his paintings, particularly the watercolors.
This beautiful book, designed to accompany the first full-scale exhibition
of Kandinsky's work in London at the Royal Academy of Arts, traces his
development from an unremarkable painter of Russian folk scenes to the
geometrically precise and clinical draftsman of the later abstract creations.
His image-making culminated during his final years with paintings of strangely
micro-organic-looking works. Art historian Frank Whitford's introductory
essay charts Kandinsky's career with wonderful lucidity, and is particularly
good on the tension between the artist's theory and practice. He is less
clear on the significance of the works on paper and outlining Kandinsky's
legacy; but perhaps the book will provide the possibilities for just such
a reassessment of the painter's standing within the history of modern art.
--Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk
212 pages, 1999. 168 colour illustrations
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