Homage to Kandinsky
New York: Leon Amiel Publisher, 1975. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering; color illustrated dj; 136 pp; 4 unnumbered leaves of plates; illustrations in bw and color. Good+/Good+ (overall light shelfwear to boards, block, dj. Light foxing spots. Light age toning. Pages are otherwise clear. Binding is tight.). Item #186224
ISBN: 9780814806340
Special issue of the XXe siècle review edited by G. di San Lazzaro. Contents: Kandinsky, the first / Jacques Lassaigne -- Kandinsky's youth / Bernard Dorival -- The great unity of a great work / Will Grohmann -- My woodcuts from "Klänge" / Wassily Kandinsky -- Genesis of the Blaue Reiter / Hideho Nishida -- Kandinsky and music / H.H. Stuckenschmidt -- The meeting with Schoenberg / Max Deutsch -- Parallels / Pierre Boulez -- Kandinsky and Franz Marc / Klaus Lankheit -- Kandinsky in Munich in 1913 / Georg Muche -- From the horse to the circle / Ré Soupault-Niemeyer -- Kandinsky's approach to the monumental / Carola Giedion-Welcker -- Kandinsky's unconscious iconography / Kenneth C. Lindsay -- The home of the stars / Jean Cassou -- Wassily Kandinsky's philosophy / Pierre Volboudt -- The plastic world of Kandinsky / Jacques Dupin -- Color, his Ariadne's thread / Dora Vallier -- The living Kandinsky / Nina Kandinsky -- A great prince of the mind / Joan Miró -- Kandinsky's great graphic poems / Pierre Volboudt -- The enchantment of the first day / Gaëtan Picon -- The first modern popular art / Giulio Carlo Argan -- New signs, new poetics / Palma Bucarelli -- Kandinsky and the Orient / Shinichi Segui -- Kandinsky in America / Thomas M. Messer -- Tributes -- Why concrete / A. Kojève -- The painter of the steppe / Roger Vieillard -- The creator of the twentieth century / Piero Dorazio -- In homage / San Lazzaro -- A pure crystal / André Breton -- Wassily Kandinsky / Marcel Duchamp -- The traveler / Charles Estienne -- Star-tamer / Jean Arp -- An exceptional character / Alberto Magnelli -- Some letters from Kandinsky to Klee -- Kandinsky today / Franz Meyer -- Magic and reason / Herbert Read -- On the way / Josef Albers -- The first lyricist of abstraction / Gérard Schneider -- The lesson of Kandinsky / Jean Leppien.
OCLC: 2465303
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