Kandinsky

1975 · 186224 — New York: Leon Amiel Publisher 1975. Hardcover. Good/Good overall light shelfwear to boards block dj. Light foxing spots. Light age toning. Pages are otherwise clear. Binding is tight. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering; color illustrated dj; 136 pp; 4 unnumbered leaves of plates; illustrations in bw and color. 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. Leon Amiel Publisher hardcover books