Format:
319 S.
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zahlr. Ill.
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26 cm
ISBN:
0892073918
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089207390X
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9780892073917
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9780892073900
Content:
This volume presents abstract Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). It reproduces scores of recently rediscovered paintings that had languished for decades in Soviet museums and in private collections. The author provides new details on Kandinsky's life and art, discussing his little-known experimental stage plays which strove for a synthesis of all the arts, and his friendships with Paul Klee, Arnold Schonberg and composer Thomas von Hartmann, who introduced the artist to Sufism, the mystical offshoot of Islam. Most chapters include excerpts from Kandinsky's newspaper articles, essays and unpublished letters, creating the impression of a tolerant nonconformist who saw art as inseparably linked with the higher laws of the cosmos. The reproductions provide an exciting glimpse of Kandinsky's leap into abstraction after his early absorption of folk and religious art, fauvism and neo-impressionism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 314 - 318)
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Vasily Kandinsky : abstract, absolute, concrete
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The artist reinvents himself : changes, crises, turning points
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The theater of pictures : Kandinsky's abstraction of abstraction
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Kandinsky and the Cahiers d'art, 1927-44
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Kandinsky and "America in general"
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Kandinsky's materials and techniques : a preliminary study of five paintings
Language:
English
Keywords:
Kandinsky, Wassily 1866-1944
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Author information:
Kandinsky, Wassily 1866-1944
Author information:
Barnett, Vivian Endicott 1944-
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