Author: KANDINSKY, WASSILY (1866-1944); SMITHGALL, ELSA, EDITOR
Title: Kandinsky and the harmony of silence: painting with white border / edited by Elsa Smithgall
Description: New Haven. Conn.; London : Yale University Press 2011. 1st edition. Fine colour printed board copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 135 p.: chiefly col. ill.; 28 cm. Notes; Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Phillips Collection. Washington. D.C. June 11-Sept. 4. 2011 and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York. N.Y. Oct. 21. 2011-Jan. 15. 2012. Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-131). Contents; Undreamt possibilites: Kandinsky's Painting with white border / Elsa Smithgall -- Side by side: the technical investigation of Sketch I for Painting with white border and Painting with white border / Elizabeth Steele. [et al.] -- Painting under the painting: Gabriele Münter's Garden concert / Annegret Hoberg. Summary; Russian artist and theoretician Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a significant figure in 20th-century abstraction. His masterwork Painting with White Border (1913; Guggenheim Museum). inspired by his native Moscow. emerged during an intensely creative period in his artistic development. Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence presents a rare. in-depth examination of the painting and more than fifteen preparatory studies in watercolor. oil. and pencil. along with closely related works made during this influential chapter in Kandinsky's career. This handsome book includes essays illuminating how Painting with White Border also relates to Kandinsky's writings. including Concerning the Spiritual in Art (published 100 years ago) and his autobiography Reminiscences. A jointly authored essay by conservators at the Phillips and the Guggenheim presents the results of a recent conservation analysis of the painting and its related oil sketch (1913; The Phillips Collection). revealing important new discoveries about the artist's creative process. materials. and methods. Subjects; Kandinsky. Wassily 1866-1944. - Painting with white border - Exhibitions. Kandinsky. Wassily 1866-1944 - Criticism and interpretation. Kandinsky. Wassily 1866-1944. Art. Abstract - 19th century. Art. Abstract - 20th century. RUSSIAN PAINTING. Abstract Expressionism; Individual artists; Painting & paintings. Russia. ART / Individual Artists / Monographs. ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). ART / Collections. Catalogs. Exhibitions / General. Weight in Kg appr.:

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