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Concerning the Spiritual in Art

by Wassily Kandinsky

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ISBN13: 9780878467020
ISBN10: 0878467025
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Publisher Comments:

Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective artistic forms, is universally recognized as an essential document of Modernist art theory. A brilliant philosophical treatise and an emphatic avant-garde tract, it provides the theoretical underpinnings for Kandinsky's own work and that of his associates in the Blaue Reiter movement. While Michael Sadler's masterful translation has been available and authoritative since its original publication in 1914, what hasn't been published until now is the significant correspondence between the translator and the artist, who followed the progress of his book's transformation closely, and who offered numerous insights into and explanations of its meanings. These letters, from the archives of Tate Britain, have here been appended to Kandinsky's text to provide the first comprehensively annotated edition of this seminal work. This volume, which supersedes any previous edition, includes the letters, Kandinsky's prefaces and prose poems relating to the period in which the book was written and Sadler's selected writings on art. It is more than an expanded edition--it is a major event, the first full account of a remarkable literary collaboration.

Book News Annotation:

First published in 1912, Kandinsky's treatise on art lays the theoretical foundation for German Expressionism and for non-objective art in general. This new edition includes not only letters between Kandinsky and his translator, Michael Sadler, but also Kandinsky's unpublished prose poems from the time of the book's composition. With these additions, as well as the introduction by Adrian Glew, archivist at the Tate, this text is an important record of the modernist period.
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Book News Annotation:

First published in 1912, Kandinsky's treatise on art lays the theoretical foundation for German Expressionism and for non-objective art in general. This new edition includes not only letters between Kandinsky and his translator, Michael Sadler, but also Kandinsky's unpublished prose poems from the time of the book's composition. With these additions, as well as the introduction by Adrian Glew, archivist at the Tate, this text is an important record of the modernist period. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

By Wassily Kandinsky. Translation by Michael T.H. Sadler with a new introduction by Adrian Glew.

Synopsis:

This new annotated edition supplements Kandinsky's seminal theoretical work with a wealth of unknown documents, including the artist's correspondence with his translator and unpublished prefaces for the book.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780878467020
Author:
Kandinsky, Wassily
Publisher:
MFA Publications
Translator:
Sadler, Michael T. H.
Editor:
Glew, Adrian
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Criticism
Subject:
Subjects & Themes - Religious
Subject:
Aesthetics
Subject:
Criticism -- Theory.
Copyright:
Publication Date:
July 2006
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
138
Dimensions:
8.88x6.58x.90 in. 1.07 lbs.

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