Vasily Kandinsky. Around the Circle. Exhibition: New York, Guggenheim Museum, 2021. 196 pages, 125 color, 55 black and white illustrations. Hardback. 25 x 22cms. Tracing Kandinsky's life and work, from his years in Moscow to Germany and France, this survey offers insights into an artist whose creative production and style were tied to a sense of place -and displacement- and evolved amid the political and social upheavals catalysed by the Russian Revolution and World Wars I and II. Essays consider Kandinsky's relationships with the avant-garde artistic communities, the influence of anarchism and radical ecology on their practice, their experimental methods of improvisation exploring the interplay between sight and sound, his connection with the Bauhaus movement and his return to cultural interests that date back to his early years in Russia. Tracing Kandinsky’s life and work, from his years in Moscow to Germany and France, this survey offers insights into an artist whose creative production and style were tied to a sense of place -and displacement- and evolved amid the political and social upheavals catalysed by the Russian Revolution and World Wars I and II. Essays consider Kandinsky's relationships with the avant-garde artistic communities, the influence of anarchism and radical ecology on their practice, their experimental methods of improvisation exploring the interplay between sight and sound, his connection with the Bauhaus movement and his return to cultural interests that date back to his early years in Russia. Text in English
