Concerning the spiritual and the concrete in Kandinsky's art / Lisa Florman.

By:

Florman, Lisa Carol [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780804789233
0804789231

Contained works:

Kojève, Alexandre, 1902-1968. Peintures concrètes de Kandinsky. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Concerning the spiritual and the concrete in Kandinsky's artDDC classification:

759.7 23

LOC classification:

ND699.K3 F59 2014eb

Other classification:

20.02
21.02

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I PAINTING IN THEORY -- First Moment -- Hegel's Aesthetics -- Second Moment -- pt. 1 Kandinsky's Uber das Geistige in der Kunst -- pt. 2 Kandinsky's Punkt und Linie zu Flache and Related Essays -- Third Moment -- Kojeve's "Les Peintures concretes de Kandinsky" -- pt. II PAINTING IN PRACTICE -- The Development Of Kandinsky's Oeuvre.

Summary: This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he published in 1911. Where most scholars have taken its repeated references to ""spirit"" as signaling quasi-religious or mystical concerns, Florman argues instead that Kandinsky's primary frame of reference was G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics, in which art had similarly been presented as a vehicle for the developing self-consciousness of spiri

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Contains an English translation of Les Peintures concrètes de Kandinsky by Alexandre Kojève.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English.

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This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he published in 1911. Where most scholars have taken its repeated references to ""spirit"" as signaling quasi-religious or mystical concerns, Florman argues instead that Kandinsky's primary frame of reference was G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics, in which art had similarly been presented as a vehicle for the developing self-consciousness of spiri

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