9780198173113 - Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style von Long, Rose-Carol Washton (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. xxviii+204pp, 8pp colour & 96pp b/w plates showing 222 images, index, price clipped dustjacket a little bumped, otherwise a nice copy. Oxford Studies In The History Of Art And Architecture. A study of the life & work of Wassily Kandinsky [ 1866 -1944 ] the Russian abstract painter who was active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. The book divided into the following chapters : The Problem - Visions Of A New Spiritual Realm - Involving The Viewer - Experiments With Stage Composition - Painting As A Total Art Work : The Role Of Hidden Images - Folk Art : Motifs For A Vision - Paintings With Thematic Titles 1901-1913 - Paintings In The Composition Series - Paintings With Titles Emphasizing Form And Colour, 1912-1914 - Kandinsky And Other Pioneering Abstractionists. 1200 grams.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Oversized 8vo. Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1980. 201 pgs. Illustrated with 16 Color & 217 Black and White Plates. DJ has light shelf-wear present. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In the five years before World War I, Kandinsky lived in the Schwabing section of Munich. He, along with a number of other thinkers/neighbors, believed that contemporary industrialized society was doomed. However, he was optimistic that the approaching new era would bring a rebirth of spirituality. Kandinsky thought that artists would show the way to the new spiritual realm. It was important to him that an artwork not be too easily understood; therefore his forms would not be realistic. In order to communicate his ideas to a wide audience, he painted "clues" drawn from folk art & "Gothic" Christian woodcuts. These apocalyptic images were clear in his preparatory studies; then, as he created the larger oil paintings, he obscured them. The chapter headings are the following: 1. The Problem, 2. Visions of a New Spiritual Realm, 3. Involving the Viewer, 4. Experiments with Stage Composition ["The Yellow Sound"], 5. Painting as a Total Art Work: The Role of Hidden Images, 6. Folk Art: Motifs for a Vision, 7. Paintings with Thematic Titles, 1909-1913 ["Last Judgment," "Deluge," etc. ], 8. Paintings in the Composition Series, 9. Paintings with Titles Emphasizing Form & Colour, 1912-1914, 10. Kandinsky & Other Pioneering Abstractionists. E-20; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 201 pages.