Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks
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Book Overview A revelatory collection of the artist's sketches and preparatory drawings, featuring many that have never been published beforeThe great ...
A revelatory collection of the artist's sketches and preparatory drawings, featuring many that have never been published before
The great Russian modernist painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Few documents provide more insight into his evolution from figural to abstract art--or into the development of abstraction in the early twentieth century--than the pages of his sketchbooks. Featuring previously unpublished drawings, Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks is a comprehensive selection of hundreds of sketches from twelve notebooks Kandinsky kept between 1889 and 1935. Beginning with early figure studies, architectural sketches, and landscapes, the notebooks reveal a process of exploration that would lead Kandinsky from his first experiments in geometric abstraction to paintings that reshaped modernism.
Demonstrating Kandinsky's mastery of color, line, shape, composition, and movement, the book includes notes and preparatory studies for major paintings, such as the "analytical drawing" for Composition VII (1913), the first study for Several Circles (1926), and Study for Composition IX, a preliminary working of his 1936 masterpiece. Visually stunning, the book offers a remarkable, intimate look at how Kandinsky sought to discover nothing less than a spiritually transcendent form of art.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 224 | Language: English | Publisher: PRINCETON UNIV PR | ISBN: 0691268509
FormatHardcover
Pages224
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0691268509
EAN9780691268507
PublisherPRINCETON UNIV PR
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight2.4 Pounds
Length10.6 Inches
Width8.5 Inches
Height1.5 Inches
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