Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence: Painting with White Border

Smithgall, Elsa (editor)

ISBN 10: 0300170785 / ISBN 13: 9780300170788

Verlag: The Phillips Collection / Yale University Press, Washington, D.C., 2011

Beschreibung

Color pictorial boards, translucent mylar dust jacket, 136 pp., many color illus. Issued in conjunction with several 2011-2012 exhibitions of a single work by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). "Builds on the grwoing body of scholarship in the field while taking a focused approach toward a single work: Painting with White Border, 1913. The exhibition reunites this masterpiece from the Guggenheim's collection with Kandinsky's first oil study from The Phillips Collection and a second oil sketch from the State Russian Museum. It also brings together more than a dozen related studies in pen, pencil, ink, and watercolor, as well as related works in various media. What more can we learn about Kandinsky by delving deeply into one masterpiece and reuniting it for the first time with its related studies? How can the interweaving of conservation and art historical research aid our inquiry?" (foreword) Look here for the intriguing answers.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 171999

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence: Painting with White Border
• Verlag: The Phillips Collection / Yale University Press, Washington, D.C.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0300170785
• ISBN-13: 9780300170788
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New in shrinkwrap.
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • European Artists

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Inhaltsangabe

Russian artist and theoretician Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a significant figure in 20th-century abstraction. His masterwork Painting with White Border (1913; Guggenheim Museum), inspired by his native Moscow, emerged during an intensely creative period in his artistic development. Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence presents a rare, in-depth examination of the painting and more than fifteen preparatory studies in watercolor, oil, and pencil, along with closely related works made during this influential chapter in Kandinsky's career.

This handsome book includes essays illuminating how Painting with White Border also relates to Kandinsky's writings, including Concerning the Spiritual in Art (published 100 years ago) and his autobiography Reminiscences. A jointly authored essay by conservators at the Phillips and the Guggenheim presents the results of a recent conservation analysis of the painting and its related oil sketch (1913; The Phillips Collection), revealing important new discoveries about the artist's creative process, materials, and methods.

Published in association with The Phillips Collection

Exhibition Schedule:

The Phillips Collection (06/11/11 – 09/4/11)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (11/04/11 – 01/29/12)

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Elsa Smithgall is curator at The Phillips Collection; Tracey Bashkoff is curator of collections and exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum; Gillian McMillan is senior conservator at the Guggenheim Museum; and Elizabeth Steele is head of conservation at The Phillips Collection.