| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages) : color illustrations |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Contains an English translation of Les Peintures concrètes de Kandinsky by Alexandre Kojève |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. Ästhetik.
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| SUBJECT |
Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944 fast |
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Kandinsky, Wassily 1866-1944 Über das Geistige in der Kunst gnd |
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Kojève, Alexandre 1902-1968 gnd |
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Kandinskij, Vasilij, 1866-1944. nta |
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. nta |
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Ästhetik (Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich) fast |
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Painting, Abstract.
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Painting, Modern -- 20th century.
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Aesthetics.
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Painting, Modern.
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20.02 philosophy and theory of the art sciences.
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21.02 history of painting.
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ART -- History -- General.
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Aesthetics
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Art -- Philosophy
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Painting, Abstract
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Painting, Modern
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Ästhetik
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Russia.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kojève, Alexandre, 1902-1968.
Peintures concrètes de Kandinsky. English.
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| ISBN |
9780804789233 |
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0804789231 |
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