Bücher von Wassily Kandinsky

Die Schrift »Über das Geistige in der Kunst« ist ein Manifest der modernen Kunsttheorie und bis heute grundlegend für das Verhältnis von Spontanität und Vernunft.Der Text der vorliegenden Ausgabe folgt der dritten Ausgabe von 1912. Die Rechtschreibung wurde in der damaligen Schreibweise belassen.

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Diese Aufsätze sind das eigentliche Vermächtnis Kandinskys zum Thema «konkrete Kunst». In ihnen formulierte Kandinsky seine wegweisenden Theorien zum Verhältnis zwischen konkreter und abstrakter Kunst, die im ganzen 20. Jahrhundert intensiv diskutiert wurden. Die Essays sind herausgegeben und kommentiert von Max Bill.

This is Kandinsky's masterpiece. According to the author, "Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul."

Excerpt:...There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity of inner tendency in the whole moral and spiritual atmosphere, a similarity of ideals, at first closely pursued but later lost to sight, a similarity in the inner feeling of any one period to that of another, the logical result will be a revival of the external forms which served to express those inner feelings in an earlier age. An example of this today is our sympathy, our spiritual relationship, with the Primitives. Like ourselves, these artists sought to express in their work only internal truths, renouncing in consequence all consideration of external form.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was a great Russian painter who is credited for painting the first modern abstract works. In this book, he details his personal philosophy of art: "Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul."

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.