{"product_id":"kandinsky","title":"Kandinsky ","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-information__description\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description--content\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003eThroughout his career,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWassily Kandinsky\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe revolutionized not only his own style, but the very course of art history. This essential guide retraces Kandinsky's rich repertoire to introduce the creator of the\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003efirst modern abstract painting\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003eand one of the most acute minds\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eof twentieth-century art\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description\"\u003e\n\n \u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description--content\"\u003eThroughout his career, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003epainter, printmaker, teacher and theoretician Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHe revolutionized not only his own style, but the very course of art history. After abandoning the figurative and landscape painting of his early days, he was the first to experiment with a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003espiritual, rhythmic and emotional use of line and color\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethanks to which today he is recognized as the father of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003efirst totally abstract work\u003c\/strong\u003e .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult—as a teacher and theoretician as well as an active artist—were all essential components of his painting and printmaking. The legacy of Kandinsky, who was a member of the influential groups of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlue Reiter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBauhaus\u003c\/strong\u003e , is not limited to an extraordinary visual corpus, but also includes a series of extremely influential essays such as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe spiritual in art\u003c\/em\u003e . Among the cardinal principles exposed were the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003econnections between painting and music\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand mystical experience as well as the purification of art from materialistic realism in favor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ean expression full of emotion, condensed in particular by the color\u003c\/strong\u003e .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis volume presents some of Kandinsky's most important works to offer an overview of his repertoire of forms, emotions, and vibrant colors. Tracing the artist's radical stylistic development, the volume shows how the evolution of a single painter paved the way for future generations of Abstract Expressionists. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description--content\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--biographies\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--wrapper\"\u003e\n\n\u003ch5 data-uw-rm-heading=\"level\" aria-level=\"2\" role=\"heading\" class=\"read-more__biography--title\"\u003e The author \u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--item\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__biography--text\"\u003e\n\n \u003cstrong\u003eHajo Düchting\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(born 1949 in Düsseldorf) studied art history, philosophy and archaeology in Munich, where in 1981 he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on the series of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWindows\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eby Robert Delaunay. After working in museums and in continuing education, he devoted himself to teaching at the universities of Munich, Kassel, Leipzig, Saarbrücken, and Mainz. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52483022750035,"sku":"TASCHEN 15 - 9783836507479","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7690\/9390\/files\/book-kandinsky-saypaper-taschen-1209068385.png?v=1764256255","url":"https:\/\/saypaper.it\/en\/products\/kandinsky","provider":"SayPaper","version":"1.0","type":"link"}