Wassily Kandinsky

“Color is the key-board, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul."
Wassily Kandinsky, excerpted from Concerning the Spiritual in Art, published by MFA Publications.

Wassily Kandinsky was born in 1866 and is one of the most famous artists of the 20th century.

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KANDINSKY
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780892073900 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2009
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CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL IN ART
By Wassily Kandinsky. Translation by Michael T.H. Sadler with a new introduction by Adrian Glew.
MFA PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9780878467020 | US $27.50
Pub Date: 7/1/2006
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VASILY KANDINSKY
Text by Carola Giedion-Welcker, Max Bill.
POLIGRAFA
ISBN: 9788434312135 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2009
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KANDINSKY COMPOSITIONS
Essay by Magdalena Dabrowski. Foreword by Richard E. Oldenburg.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780870704055 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 11/2/2002
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KANDINSKY COMPOSITIONS
Essay by Magdalena Dabrowski. Foreword by Richard E. Oldenburg.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780870704062 | US $22.50
Pub Date: 7/2/2002
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Wassily Kandinsky

Featured image is from the Guggenheim Museum's 2009-2010 blockbuster, Kandinsky.

Vasily Kandinsky

Text by Carola Giedion-Welcker, Max Bill.
Published by Poligrafa

As a painter and a teacher, and co-founder of the Blaue Reiter, the Russian-born artist Vasily Kandinsky has played a leading role in the unfolding of modern art. Greatly influenced by music-- "music is the ultimate teacher," he once averred--Kandinsky painted his first abstract compositions during his Bavarian period (1906-1914), and these riotously musical canvases, with their intense symphonies of color and wildly jostling forms, have influenced successive generations of abstract artists to the present day. The Swiss artist, designer and founder of Concrete art, Max Bill, whose excellent preface opens this perfect introduction to the world of Kandinsky, was a student at the Bauhaus during the artist's tenure there, and was the editor of the first edition of Kandinsky's collected writings. His inclusion in this volume adds a useful historical perspective, while Carola Giedion-Welcker contributes a concise essay on the artist.

Kandinsky

Edited by Tracey Bashkoff. Text by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Christian Derouet, Matthias Haltemann, Annegret Hoberg, Gillian McMillan.
Published by Guggenheim Museum

No other artist epitomizes the character of the Guggenheim Museum quite like Vasily Kandinsky, who is closely linked to the history of the museum and has been collected in depth in the permanent collection since its founding. Kandinsky accompanies the first full-scale retrospective of the artist's career to be exhibited in the United States since 1985, when the Guggenheim culminated its trio of groundbreaking exhibitions of the artist's life and work in Munich, Russia and Paris. This presentation of nearly 100 paintings brings together works from the three institutions that have the greatest concentration of Kandinsky's work in the world: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; as well as significant loans from private and public holdings. This traveling exhibition's final iteration at the Guggenheim Museum will investigate both Kandinsky's formal and conceptual contributions to the course of abstraction in the twentieth century, concentrating on his innovations in painting. Kandinsky traces the artist's vision through thematic motifs such as the horse and rider, mountainous landscapes, tumultuous seascapes, apocalyptic imagery and other religious subjects.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

By Wassily Kandinsky. Translation by Michael T.H. Sadler with a new introduction by Adrian Glew.
Published by MFA Publications

Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective artistic forms, is universally recognized as an essential document of Modernist art theory. A brilliant philosophical treatise and an emphatic avant-garde tract, it provides the theoretical underpinnings for Kandinsky's own work and that of his associates in the Blaue Reiter movement. While Michael Sadler's masterful translation has been available and authoritative since its original publication in 1914, what hasn't been published until now is the significant correspondence between the translator and the artist, who followed the progress of his book's transformation closely, and who offered numerous insights into and explanations of its meanings. These letters, from the archives of Tate Britain, have here been appended to Kandinsky's text to provide the first comprehensively annotated edition of this seminal work. This volume, which supersedes any previous edition, includes the letters, Kandinsky's prefaces and prose poems relating to the period in which the book was written and Sadler's selected writings on art. It is more than an expanded edition--it is a major event, the first full account of a remarkable literary collaboration.

Kandinsky Compositions

Essay by Magdalena Dabrowski. Foreword by Richard E. Oldenburg.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Vasily Kandinsky was among the international vanguard artists who experimented with abstraction in the early years of the 20th century. His most powerful and ambitious works were ten monumental canvases he titled Compositions: he painted the first seven in intense succession between 1909 and 1913, and the final three in 1923, 1936, and 1939. Each of these brilliant paintings and their studies explores the sensuous colorism that amateur and specialist alike find so appealing in his art. In the first study devoted to Kandinsky's Compositions as a series, the author unfolds the rich and powerful context of these eloquent images and reveals how their formal principles and iconographical imagery were of almost religious significance to Kandinsky. This book, for the first time, reproduces all ten of the Compositions, along with their studies in oil, watercolor, ink, and pencil. Three of the paintings, which were destroyed during World War II, are repesented through extant photographs.

Kandinsky Compositions

Essay by Magdalena Dabrowski. Foreword by Richard E. Oldenburg.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York