Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style - Hardcover

Kandinsky: the Development of an Abstract Style

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. Artikel-Nr. 55412

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