false <![CDATA[Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174449662m/402535.jpg 402535 2 <div>Of all the giants of twentieth-century art, Wassily Kandinsky (1866&#8211;1944) was the most prolific writer. Here, available for the first time in paperback, are all of Kandinsky's writings on art, newly translated into English. Editors Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Vergo have taken their translations directly from Kandinsky's original texts, and have included select interviews, lecture notes, and newly discovered items along with his more formal writings. The pieces range from one-page essays to the book-length treatises <i>On the Spiritual in Art</i> (1911) and <i>Point and Line to Plane</i> (1926), and are arranged in chronological order from 1901 to 1943. The poetry, good enough to stand on its literary merits, is presented with all the original accompanying illustrations. And the book's design follows Kandinsky's intentions, preserving the spirit of the original typography and layout.Kandinsky was nearly thirty before he bravely gave up an academic career in law for his true passion, painting. Though his art was marked by extraordinarily varied styles, Kandinsky sought a pure art throughout, one which would express the soul, or "inner necessity," of the artist. His uncompromising search for an art which would elicit a response to itself rather than to the object depicted resulted in the birth of nonobjective art&#8212;and in these writings, Kandinsky offered the first cogent explanation of his aims. His language was characterized by its desire for vivification, of the infusion of life into mundane things.Considered as a whole, Kandinsky&#8217;s writings exceed all expectations of what an artist should accomplish with words. Not only do his ideas and observations make us rethink the nature of art and the way it reflects the aspirations of his era, but they touch on matters vital to the situation of the human soul.</div> 391925 1982 Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art total:19|5:9|4:7|3:3| 19 82 41 5 402535 0306805707 9780306805707 19 5 Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art 4.32 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174449662m/402535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402535.Kandinsky_Complete_Writings_on_Art 4 0 false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Sep 17 17:57:10 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 18:21:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 402535 0306805707 9780306805707 19 5 Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art 4.32 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174449662m/402535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402535.Kandinsky_Complete_Writings_on_Art 5 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 29 14:55:42 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 15:06:32 -0700 2009 twice more...]]> 402535 0306805707 9780306805707 19 5 Kandinsky, Complete 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