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Kandinsky: The Elements of Art
by Sers, Philippe
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0500093970
- ISBN 13
- 9780500093979
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Thames and Hudson, 2016. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 12 1/2" X 11 1/4". 335pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Gentle bumps to corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
An authoritative chronology of the iconic work of one of the great figures of twentieth-century modernism, Wassily Kandinsky
The richness of Wassily Kandinsky's life, work, and intellect make him one of the leading figures of twentieth-century art. He was a founding member of the artistic group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), and his theories influenced many of the major artistic movements of his time, including Dada, the Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Russian Constructivism. A man of diverse interests, he was a friend to artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Paul Klee and had fruitful relationships with contemporary musicians including Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas de Hartmann.
This book traces the chronological evolution of Kandinsky's art, making use of an unprecedented wealth of documents from the artist's own workshop including autobiographical writings, correspondence, and theoretical essays to shed new light on his prolific creative imagination. Kandinsky divided his work into three categories: impressions (observations of the exterior world), improvisations (expressions of inner feeling), and compositions (images on a grander scale that brought inner and outer visions together).
Generously illustrated throughout, this book uncovers the well of symbolic imagery that lies behind Kandinsky's paintings, prints, and poetry and explores his passionate belief in the spiritual and harmonizing power of art. 250+ illustrations(Publisher).
This book is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
An authoritative chronology of the iconic work of one of the great figures of twentieth-century modernism, Wassily Kandinsky
The richness of Wassily Kandinsky's life, work, and intellect make him one of the leading figures of twentieth-century art. He was a founding member of the artistic group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), and his theories influenced many of the major artistic movements of his time, including Dada, the Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Russian Constructivism. A man of diverse interests, he was a friend to artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Paul Klee and had fruitful relationships with contemporary musicians including Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas de Hartmann.
This book traces the chronological evolution of Kandinsky's art, making use of an unprecedented wealth of documents from the artist's own workshop including autobiographical writings, correspondence, and theoretical essays to shed new light on his prolific creative imagination. Kandinsky divided his work into three categories: impressions (observations of the exterior world), improvisations (expressions of inner feeling), and compositions (images on a grander scale that brought inner and outer visions together).
Generously illustrated throughout, this book uncovers the well of symbolic imagery that lies behind Kandinsky's paintings, prints, and poetry and explores his passionate belief in the spiritual and harmonizing power of art. 250+ illustrations(Publisher).
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13755
- Title
- Kandinsky: The Elements of Art
- Author
- Sers, Philippe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0500093970
- ISBN 13
- 9780500093979
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2016
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
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Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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