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Wassily Kandinsky / Hajo Düchting

By:

Düchting, Hajo

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Prestel , 2008Description: 128 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

9783791339580
0262720108 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

759.7 KAN

LOC classification:

P37 .V9413 1986

Contents:

Summary: This volume explores Russian painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky's ife and career, from his radical work as the founder of the Blue Rider group and his escape from Weimar Germany to Paris, to his stormy love affair with the painter Gabriele Münter and his many friendships with leading artists of his generation. Color reproductions of Kandinsky's works are presented alongside photographs that document the tumultuous world he inhabited. Tracing the arc of Kandinsky's artistic development - from his early landscapes and experiments with impressionism to his emergence as a pioneer in the field of abstract expressionism - this beautifully designed volume celebrates Kandinsky's work through the lens of his extraordinary life.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	759.7 KAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		013376

Includes index.

Context : the call of Munich -- Fame : the revolution in painting -- Art : the road to abstraction -- Life : artist, teacher, cosmopolitan -- Love : from muse to wife -- Kandinsky today : Kandinsky and what came after.

This volume explores Russian painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky's ife and career, from his radical work as the founder of the Blue Rider group and his escape from Weimar Germany to Paris, to his stormy love affair with the painter Gabriele Münter and his many friendships with leading artists of his generation. Color reproductions of Kandinsky's works are presented alongside photographs that document the tumultuous world he inhabited. Tracing the arc of Kandinsky's artistic development - from his early landscapes and experiments with impressionism to his emergence as a pioneer in the field of abstract expressionism - this beautifully designed volume celebrates Kandinsky's work through the lens of his extraordinary life.

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