| Kandinsky Contributor(s): Düchting, Hajo (Author) |
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ISBN: 3836507463 ISBN-13: 9783836507462 Publisher: Taschen OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 759.7 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.2" W x 10.3" (1.35 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work. As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus groups and left a legacy not only of dazzling visual work, but also of highly influential treatises such as Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Key tenets included the connections between painting, music and mystical experience, and the purification of art away from material realism and towards an emotional expression, condensed in particular by color. This book presents key Kandinsky works to introduce his repertoire of vivid colors, forms, and feelings. Tracing the artist's radical stylistic development, it shows how one painter's progression paved the way for generations of abstract expression to come. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions |
Contributor Bio(s): Duchting, Hajo: - Hajo Düchting a étudié l'histoire de l'art, la philosophie et l'archéologie à Munich, où il a décroché son doctorat en 1981 avec une thèse portant sur la série des Fenêtres de Robert Delaunay. Après avoir travaillé dans la formation pour adultes au musée, il a occupé des postes de professeur titulaire et de professeur invité dans les universités de Munich, Kassel, Leipzig, Saarbruck et Mayence. Düchting a écrit de nombreux articles sur l'art de l'époque moderne, la théorie de la couleur et l'enseignement artistique et a publié plusieurs ouvrages chez TASCHEN, dont Paul Cézanne, Vassili Kandinsky, Robert et Sonia Delaunay et Georges Seurat. |