Vasily Kandinsky

Edited by Neue Galerie New YorkTexts by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Shulamith Behr, Christian Derouet, Reinhold Heller, Jill Lloyd, Peter Vergo, Rose-Carol Washton LongThe evolution of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the artist’s work from the Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus yearsAlongside his development of a revolutionary abstract style, Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944) demonstrated an ambition to go beyond conventional easel painting. His famous large paintings with musical and theatrical associations transformed into veritable environments. The catalog explores the evolution of a Gesamtkunstwerk in the work of Kandinsky including essays by leading Kandinsky scholars on painting as a total work of art, or the artist’s interest in music and theatre. Separated into three sections, it illustrates how Kandinsky’s fascination for the Wagnerian concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk and the principles of synesthesia developed into large-scale painting within the context of the two highly significant artistic groups Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus, as well as in response to the changing historical circumstances, last but not least, culminating in his large-scale decorative utopian murals and installations. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.Hardcover208 pages | 192 black-and-white and color illustrationsNeue Galerie New YorkHatje Cantz, 201323.50 x 28.50 cmISBN 9783775737340Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Art History, Essays, Movements

Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925 Exhibition Catalogue

By Hajo DüchtingOver 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.Hardcover96 pagesTaschen, 20158.4 x 0.5 x 10.4 inchesISBN 9783836507462Artist Monograph, Painting, Abstraction

Kandinsky (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Von Vivian Endicott Barnett, Michael Baumgartner, Annegret Hoberg, Christine Hopfengart, Peter Vergo, Wolfgang Thöner, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Angelika Weissbach, Charles Haxthausen Die gemeinsame Zeit am Bauhaus in Dessau und Weimar ist der Schwerpunkt dieses Buches über Paul Klee und Wassily Kandinsky und ihre KünstlerfreundschaftKlee und Kandinsky gehören zu den prägenden Künstlerpersönlichkeiten des 20. Jahrhunderts und sind eines der großen Freundespaare der Moderne. Zeitweise lebten sie Tür an Tür und standen im täglichen künstlerischen Austausch. Dieses Buch behandelt die 30 Jahre ihrerblue Verbindung von der Zeit des "Blauen Reiter" um 1912 bis in die späten 1930er-Jahre. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Bauhausjahren, der Zeit, in der die beiden Künstler an der berühmten Schule in Weimar und Dessau unterrichteten. Das Buch zeigt, wie das Verhältnis der beiden Maler gleichermaßen von Freundschaft und Konkurrenz, Einfluss und Abgrenzung geprägt war. Vor allem aber wird ihr künstlerischer Dialog sichtbar. Sie waren sich einig in dem Ziel, die Kunst zu vergeistigen und deren innere Gesetzmäßigkeiten zu untersuchen. Zugleich aber unterschieden sie sich durch Kandinskys Einsatz für die abstrakte Kunst und Klees Festhalten am Vorbild der Natur. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover360 pages | 62 illustrationsText in GermanPrestel, 20159.4 x 1.5 x 11.1 inchesISBN 9783791354798Painting, Bauhaus, Blue Rider

Klee & Kandinsky: Nachbarn, Freunde, Konkurrenten

Original Price: $70 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Matthias Frehner and Daniel Spanke Kunstmuseum Bern, the oldest museum in Switzerland, turns its gaze toward its own acquisition history in this lavish book that features artistic masterpieces considered worthless by the Nazis, and the stories of how they came to Switzerland. As a result of the Nazi regime’s scorn for modern art, virtually all non-traditional art between 1933 and 1945 was banned in Germany on the grounds that it was un-German, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as “degenerate” artists were dismissed from teaching positions and forbidden to exhibit or to sell their works. This book sheds light on the historical significance and provenance of nearly 525 works by modernist greats, such as Picasso, Chagall, and Kandinsky, which were acquired by the Kunstmuseum Bern through a combination of auctions and private donations. The book traces the fates of artists who suffered under the Nazi regime and who had connections to Switzerland, including Kirchner, Klee and Dix, and contrasts the cultural policies of the Third Reich with those of Switzerland in the same period. Finally, it details the dramatic events and unprecedented efforts that went into preserving invaluable works of art. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover376 pagesPrestel, 20169.2 x 1.4 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783791355368Art History, Museum Studies

Modern Masters: "Degenerate" Art at the Kunstmuseum Bern

By Barb RosenstockIllustrated by Mary GrandPré A Caldecott Honor Book “GrandPré employs muted purples and blues to depict Vasya’s dull childhood world. Once he starts painting, the pages come alive with bright swirls of color that fly around his head like strands of melody…Even those who aren’t inspired to visit a museum will take away the lesson of Kandinsky’s life: Listen to what excites you and follow its call.”—The New York Times“Rosenstock’s prose strikes a balance between lightheartedness and lyricism. GrandPré’s paintings conjure up an entire epoch…breathing life into all the characters.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“A rich, accomplished piece about a pioneer in the art world.”—Kirkus, Starred Review Vasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy: he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. And when his family sent him to art classes, they expected him to paint pretty houses and flowers—like a proper artist. But as Vasya opened his paint box and began mixing the reds, the yellows, the blues, he heard a strange sound—the swirling colors trilled like an orchestra tuning up for a symphony! And as he grew older, he continued to hear brilliant colors singing and see vibrant sounds dancing. But was Vasya brave enough to put aside his proper still life's and portraits and paint . . . music? In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Rosenstock and Mary GrandPré tell the fascinating story of Vasily Kandinsky, one of the very first painters of abstract art. Throughout his life, Kandinsky experienced colors as sounds, and sounds as colors—and bold, groundbreaking works burst forth from his noisy paint box. Hardcover40 pagesAge range: 4-8 yearsKnopf Books for Young Readers, 20148.7 x 0.3 x 11.3 inchesISBN 9780307978486Biography, Art History

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art

Edited by Helmut Friedel and Annegret Hoberg Now available in a new format, this opulent book presents Vasily Kandinsky’s major paintings from all phases of his artistic career and celebrates the artist and his groundbreaking work. This generously illustrated volume displays Vasily Kandinsky’s brilliant use of color, shape, and composition through approximately 250 full-color illustrations. Essays by the world’s leading Kandinsky experts focus on the evolution of his work throughout all periods of his career: his exploration of his Russian roots and his emigration to Munich; his attraction to the Art Nouveau and fauvist movements; the formation of the Blue Rider group; the influence of music on his painting; his years at the Bauhaus; and his late work in Paris. The book’s design allows for a thorough examination of Kandinsky’s most important works in all their extraordinary detail. Accessible, impeccably researched, and wide-ranging, this important volume offers an indispensable overview of the artist’s seminal works and a tribute to the beauty and power of Kandinsky’s vision. Hardcover320 pagesPrestel, 20169 x 1.3 x 12.9 inchesISBN 9783791382920Artist Monograph, Art History, Painting

Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944)Black Form, 19231 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Vasily Kandinsky: Black Form, 1923 [Single Card]

Portrait of Vasily Kandinsky, 1933, gelatin silver print. Photo by: Hugh Erfurth (1874-1948).

Portrait of Vasily Kandinsky [Postcard]

Edited by Natalia Sidlina "The story of the friendships that made modern art. Brought together in the UK for the first time in 80 years, this exhibition book offers unprecedented access to the landmark exhibition's collection of masterpieces. Expressionists is a story of friendships told through art - the groundbreaking work of a circle of friends and close collaborators known as The Blue Rider. In the early twentieth century they came together to form, in their own words, 'a union of various countries to serve one purpose' - to tr "--From the Back Cover A crucial introduction to the origins of the German Expressionist movement and the influential Blue Rider group, focusing on their relationships and transcultural interests Founded in Munich in the 1910s, the Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) was a revolutionary collective of artists, musicians, performers and writers that included Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin, among many others. Their experiments with color, sound and light were key to the development of Expressionism, and their practice was stunningly varied. The group’s works encompassed painting, sculpture, design, curation, publishing, printmaking, textiles, performative arts, and even branched into sound and spirituality. This book offers an essential overview of the Blue Rider collective. Often described in conjunction with the German Expressionist movement, the Blue Rider was in fact one of the first transnational modern art collectives. This is a key focus of the book, along with along with new research foregrounding the relationships, gender dynamics and multimedia practices of the collective. New scholarship from more than a dozen international experts illuminates these themes as well as questions of spatiality, studio practice and creative community, with particular focus on the contributions of women associated with the Blue Rider circle. This richly illustrated publication features works by these acclaimed artists along with a trove of materials from their personal collections, including photography, international art, crafts and vernacular artifacts, and a comprehensive biographical section that serves as an important introduction to the circle of the Blue Rider creatives, including overlooked artists such as Wladimir Burliuk and Maria Franck-Marc. Hardcover240 Pages | 200 color + black-and-white illustrationsYale University Press, 20249 x 10.7 inchesISBN 9780300278330 Blue Rider, Expressionism

Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider

Edited by Jelena Hahl-Fontaine What the venerated artist’s letters reveal about his life and art. Wassily Kandinsky was not only the inventor of abstract painting but its gifted advocate. His letters reveal an artist who thought, communicated, and organized incessantly. He was also straightforward and warm-hearted, so it is especially surprising that a significant portion of his correspondence has remained unpublished until now. Through astute—and at times witty and polemical—letters that Kandinsky wrote to his colleagues and friends, readers gain an insight into the artist’s way of thinking and his everyday life. His correspondence also reflects the dramatic times in which he worked; Kandinsky lived through two revolutions, two world wars, the Nazi regime, four emigrations, and transformative events within the art world. Wassily Kandinsky: A Life in Letters provides rich context into the corpus, circumstances, and personality of a monumental artist. Hardcover344 pagesHirmer Publishers, 20245.25 x 1.2 x 8.25 inchesISBN 9783777440361Literary Letters

Kandinsky: A Life in Letters 1889 1944

By Wassily KandinskyIntroduction by Lisa FlormanTranslated by Ruth Ahmedzai KempNotes by Lisa Florman A treatise on the spiritual in contemporary painting to adopt new, metaphysical ways of conceiving of and creating art, by one of the most impactful and recognized artists of the twentieth century, in a new translation for the first time since publication A Penguin Classic In Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous abstract painters of all time, urges the reader to free themselves from art’s traditional bonds to material reality. In this radical theoretical work, he calls for a spiritual revolution in painting, arguing that artists, much like musicians, should be allowed to express their own inner lives in abstract, non-material terms. Investigating form and colour, spirituality and tradition, Kandinsky explores art’s resonance with the soul, its purpose and nature, and its power to inspire us, to stir our emotions and to help us see beyond the limits of our world. A significant contribution to the understanding of non-objectivism in art, this book serves as an important landmark in modern art history and is necessary reading for every artist and art-lover. Paperback192 pagesPenguin Classic, 20255.1 x 7.75 inchesISBN 9780241384800Philosophy, Art Theory

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Edited by Ortrud Westheider and Michael Philipp Spanning six decades, three continents, and multiple mediums, this exhibition catalog explores one of the most significant and influential artistic movements of the twentieth century. At the beginning of the twentieth century, painting underwent a profound transformation. Artists no longer wanted to depict the visible; they aspired to a new visual language that reduced artistic expression to an interplay of colors, lines, and shapes; reflected the modern world; and transcended national boundaries. A central figure of this art movement was Wassily Kandinsky, who laid the theoretical foundations with his work Point and Line to Plane. This lushly illustrated and highly researched volume showcases how Geometric Abstraction found radical expression in all its variations in Europe, the USA and beyond. It features more than one hundred works by over seventy artists, including Josef Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Barbara Hepworth, El Lissitzky, Agnes Martin, Piet Mondrian, Bridget Riley, Frank Stella, and Victor Vasarely. Essays by leading scholars illuminate the ways these artists were inspired by the advanced technologies and theories of their time, including concepts of the fourth dimension and the space- time continuum. The authors explore the movement through a transnational lens—from Belgium, Germany, and Great Britain, to France, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, and the United States; and emphasize the long-neglected role of women in the movement’s advancement. Through its insightful essays and stunning visuals, this volume offers a definitive exploration of how geometric abstraction revolutionized modern art and continues to inspire artists across the globe. Hardcover 320 pagesPrestel, 20259.5 x 11.75 inchesISBN 9783791377919Art History, Movements

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Vasily Kandinsky

Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925 Exhibition Catalogue

Kandinsky (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Klee & Kandinsky: Nachbarn, Freunde, Konkurrenten

Modern Masters: "Degenerate" Art at the Kunstmuseum Bern

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art

Vasily Kandinsky

Vasily Kandinsky: Black Form, 1923 [Single Card]

Portrait of Vasily Kandinsky [Postcard]

Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider

Kandinsky: A Life in Letters 1889 1944

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Kandinsky's Universe: Geometric Abstractions in the 20th Century

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Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925 Exhibition Catalogue

Kandinsky (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Klee & Kandinsky: Nachbarn, Freunde, Konkurrenten

Modern Masters: "Degenerate" Art at the Kunstmuseum Bern

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art

Vasily Kandinsky

Vasily Kandinsky: Black Form, 1923 [Single Card]

Portrait of Vasily Kandinsky [Postcard]

Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider

Kandinsky: A Life in Letters 1889 1944

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Kandinsky's Universe: Geometric Abstractions in the 20th Century

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