Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.
This famous work by a pioneer in the movement to free art from the bonds of tradition explores the role of the line, point, and other key elements of non-objective painting. 127 illustrations.
Of all the giants of twentieth-century art, Wassily Kandinsky (18661944) was the most prolific writer. Here, available for the first time in paperback, are all of Kandinsky's writings on art, newly translated into English. Editors Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Vergo have taken their translations directly from Kandinsky's original texts, and have ...
The ill-starred love affair between Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter is one of the most intriguing episodes in the history of twentieth-century art - a story of happiness and pain, trust and betrayal, idyllic harmony and bitter conflict, set against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that attended the birth of Modernism. Living and ...
"Wassily Kandinskys contributions as a theorist were arguably more influential on modern art than any of his paintings. In Concerning the Spiritual in Art, first published in 1914, Kandinsky both promotes and defends a form of art in which painters express themselves in abstract terms independent of the material world around them, much as ...
Six terrific new volumes join the ArtBook Series, DK's ongoing exploration of the most innovative, influential, and imitated artists in history. Written by leading art historians, each book is compact but packed -- literally filled with quality reproductions of each artist's masterpieces. Few art history texts contain such abundance of full-color ...
The term "Abstract Expressionism"--now associated with such artists as Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning--was in fact originally coined to describe the work of Vasily Kandinsky. One of the founders of the expressionist Blue Rider group, Kandinsky went beyond expressionism, ultimately taking his work not just to the edge of abstraction but past ...
As the renewer of art in the 20th century, Wassily Kandinsky created roughly 230 woodcuts, linocuts, et?chings, lithographs and posters. From 1 901 until the final years of his life, his work was accompanied by a steady output of prints, some of which were based on previously created paintings, and some of which were completely independent works ...
Aparecido en 1926, Punto y linea sobre el plano es la continuacion organica de otro texto de Kandinsky tambien publicado por Paidos, De lo espiritual en el arte, y debe su origen, en su mayor parte, a la tarea que su autor habia asumido en la Bauhaus desde 1922. En efecto, tanto en su pintura como en sus ideas esteticas, Kandinsky mostro siempre ...
This colorful collection of sticker art reproduces 16 striking images by one of the most prominent pioneers of abstract art in the early 20th century. Featured works include "Horizontals," "Between the Two of Us," "Bright Lucidity," "Multicolored Circle," "Red Oval," "Subdued Glow," "Checkered," and "Painting within a Painting."
Six of the great Russian-born artist's most memorable canvases, including "Composition VIII" (1923), "Multicolored Circle" (1921) and "Checkered "(1925), reproduced as full-color postcards. Just detach and mail.
Aparecido en 1911, este es el primero y el mas publicado y traducido de los textos teoricos de Kandinsky, un discurso estetico que desembocaria en la practica de la abstraccion no figurativa. En este sentido, el libro se propone esencialmente despertar la capacidad de captar lo espiritual en las cosas materiales y abstractas, capacidad que ...
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Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist as Ethnographer and Shaman
