Concerning The Spiritual And The Concrete In Kandinsky S Art

Author : Lisa Florman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780804789233

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Concerning the Spiritual—and the Concrete—in Kandinsky’s Art by Lisa Florman Pdf

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 spirit (or Geist, in German). In addition to close readings of Kandinsky's writings, the book also includes a discussion of a 1936 essay on the artist's paintings written by his own nephew, philosopher Alexandre Kojève, the foremost Hegel scholar in France at that time. It also provides detailed analyses of individual paintings by Kandinsky, demonstrating how the development of his oeuvre challenges Hegel's views on modern art, yet operates in much the same manner as does Hegel's philosophical system. Through the work of a single, crucial artist, Florman presents a radical new account of why painting turned to abstraction in the early years of the twentieth century.

Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780241384817

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky Pdf

A seminal text in the history of modern art, from one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century ‘Art is the language that speaks to the soul’ Why do we make art? In Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky, one of the earliest and most famous abstract painters, argued against ‘art for art’s sake’. Exploring form and colour, spirituality and tradition, Kandinsky instead predicted a future for painting in its potential to redirect the attention of viewers away from the shallow materialism of the modern world toward the more profound intellectual and emotional concerns of their interior lives. His revolutionary work became a landmark in modern art history, helping to usher in the age of non-representational painting. This new translation also includes Kandinsky’s later essay, ‘The Question of Form’, in which he interrogates and sharpens many of his earlier ideas. A new translation by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp With an introduction by Lisa Florman

Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002640881

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art, and Painting in Particular by Wassily Kandinsky Pdf

Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1453627421

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Wassily Kandinsky by Wassily Kandinsky Pdf

All art students are advised to read "Concerning the Spiritual in Art," a short masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky. This classic best explains the concepts that lead to abstract painting in the modern era Kandinsky recognized the connection between music and painting. He also suggested that artists free themselves from the material world so that they can express their inner impulses. Thus the abstract painting requires contemplation to reveal its meaning. Furthermore, the meaning may be a projection of the inner life of the viewer as much as it is the inner life of the artists. This concept is not new to music but it certainly was new to painting in 1911. Once considered a radical idea, the spiritual aspect of abstract art is now a given in culture. Wassily Kandinsky offers some very insightful comments regarding his contemporaries, recognizing Matisse as the 20th century master of color and Picasso as the 20th century master of line. He faults them both, however, for not making the final step toward complete abandonment of the physical world. In "Concerning the Spiritual in Art," Kandinsky also asserts that imitative painting of other eras was a deadly trap for the artist, yet responding to the eternal call of the unconscious forces in an earlier period of art history was a valid area of exploration. Kandinsky believed that art progressed, that artistic concepts built on each other and that there was a triangle of artistic conception that moved forward to some end point, yet to be discovered. Kandinsky warns against pattern painting, which he thought would lead to monotony and away from spirituality. Every artist owes it to themselves to read "Concerning the Spiritual in Art." Though short, this book is the classic on which much art history, philosophy, and practice has been based.

Author : Magdalena Dabrowski,Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034282809

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Kandinsky Compositions by Magdalena Dabrowski,Wassily Kandinsky Pdf

Essay by Magdalena Dabrowski. Foreword by Richard E. Oldenburg.

Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 1839745509

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Painting in Particular by Wassily Kandinsky Pdf

Author : Gavin Keeney
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781947447349

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Knowledge, Spirit, Law: Book 2: The Anti-capitalist Sublime by Gavin Keeney Pdf

Knowledge, Spirit, Law, Book 2: The Anti-capitalist Sublime takes up where Knowledge, Spirit, Law, Book 1: Radical Scholarship (2015) left off, foremost in terms of a critique of neo-liberal academia and its demotion of the book in favor of various mediatic practices that substitute, arguably, for the one form of critical inquiry that might safeguard speculative intellectual inquiry as long-form and long-term project, especially in relationship to the archive or library (otherwise known as the "public domain"). This ongoing critique of neo-liberal academia is a necessary corrective to processes underway today toward the further marginalization of radical critique, with many of the traditional forms of sustained analysis being replaced by pseudo-empirical studies that abandon themes only presentable in the Arts and Humanities through the "arcanian closure" that the book as long-form inquisition represents (whether as novel, non-fictional critique, or something in-between). As a tomb for thought, this privileging of the shadowy recesses of the book preserves, through the very apparatuses of long- and slow-form scholarship, the premises presented here as indicative of an anti-capitalist project embedded in works that might otherwise shun such a characterization. The perverse capitalist capture of knowledge through mass digitalization is - paradoxically - the negative corollary for the reduction by abstraction of everyday works to a philosophical and moral inquest against Capital. The latter actually constitutes a transversal reduction for works (across works) toward the age-old antithesis to instrumentalized socio-cultural production - Spirit. For similar reasons, the anti-capitalist sublime as presented here is primarily a product of the imaginative, magical-realist regimes of thought in service to "no capital" - to no capitalization of thought. This book seeks to re-establish paradigmatic, a-historical, and universalizing practices in humanistic scholarship associated with speculative inquiry as a form of art, utilizing in passing forms of art and exemplary paradigmatic practices that are also first-order forms of speculative inquiry - suggesting that first-order works in the Arts and Humanities are those works that may "suffer" second-order incorporations without the attendant loss of the impress of sublimity (Spirit).

Author : Louise Hardiman,Nicola Kozicharow
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783743414

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Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art by Louise Hardiman,Nicola Kozicharow Pdf

In 1911 Vasily Kandinsky published the first edition of ‘On the Spiritual in Art’, a landmark modernist treatise in which he sought to reframe the meaning of art and the true role of the artist. For many artists of late Imperial Russia – a culture deeply influenced by the regime’s adoption of Byzantine Orthodoxy centuries before – questions of religion and spirituality were of paramount importance. As artists and the wider art community experimented with new ideas and interpretations at the dawn of the twentieth century, their relationship with ‘the spiritual’ – broadly defined – was inextricably linked to their roles as pioneers of modernism. This diverse collection of essays introduces new and stimulating approaches to the ongoing debate as to how Russian artistic modernism engaged with questions of spirituality in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Ten chapters from emerging and established voices offer new perspectives on Kandinsky and other familiar names, such as Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Larionov, and Natalia Goncharova, and introduce less well-known figures, such as the Georgian artists Ucha Japaridze and Lado Gudiashvili, and the craftswoman and art promoter Aleksandra Pogosskaia. Prefaced by a lively and informative introduction by Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow that sets these perspectives in their historical and critical context, Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives enriches our understanding of the modernist period and breaks new ground in its re-examination of the role of religion and spirituality in the visual arts in late Imperial Russia. Of interest to historians and enthusiasts of Russian art, culture, and religion, and those of international modernism and the avant-garde, it offers innovative readings of a history only partially explored, revealing uncharted corners and challenging long-held assumptions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004300019

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Byzantium/Modernism by Anonim Pdf

Byzantium/Modernism examines the cross-temporal interchange between Byzantium and modernism and articulates how and why Byzantine art and image theory can contribute to our understanding of modern and contemporary visual culture.

Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:4064066397067

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The Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky Pdf

Kandinsky in this book defines the three types of painting; impressions, improvisations and compositions. While impressions are based on an external reality that serves as a starting point, improvisations and compositions depict images emergent from the unconscious, though composition is developed from a more formal point of view. Kandinsky compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid—the artist has a mission to lead others to the pinnacle with his work. The point of the pyramid is those few, great artists. It is a spiritual pyramid, advancing and ascending slowly even if it sometimes appears immobile. During decadent periods, the soul sinks to the bottom of the pyramid; humanity searches only for external success, ignoring spiritual forces.

Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486136240

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Point and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky Pdf

This famous work by a pioneer in the movement to free art from the bonds of tradition explores the role of the line, point, and other key elements of non-objective painting. 127 illustrations.

Author : Erika Doss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226820910

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Spiritual Moderns by Erika Doss Pdf

Examines how and why religion matters in the history of modern American art. Andy Warhol is one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. He was also an observant Catholic who carried a rosary, went to mass regularly, kept a Bible by his bedside, and depicted religious subjects throughout his career. Warhol was a spiritual modern: a modern artist who appropriated religious images, beliefs, and practices to create a distinctive style of American art. Spiritual Moderns centers on four American artists who were both modern and religious. Joseph Cornell, who showed with the Surrealists, was a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Mark Tobey created pioneering works of Abstract Expressionism and was a follower of the Bahá’í Faith. Agnes Pelton was a Symbolist painter who embraced metaphysical movements including New Thought, Theosophy, and Agni Yoga. And Warhol, a leading figure in Pop art, was a lifelong Catholic. Working with biographical materials, social history, affect theory, and the tools of art history, Doss traces the linked subjects of art and religion and proposes a revised interpretation of American modernism.

Author : Joseph Masheck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350216983

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Faith in Art by Joseph Masheck Pdf

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with the initiators of abstract painting, Joseph Masheck reveals how an underlying religiosity informed some of our most important abstract painters. Covering Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and El Lissitzky, Masheck shows how 'revealed religion' has been an underlying but fundamental determinant of the thinking and practice of abstract painting from its very originators. He contextualizes their art within some of the historical moments of the early 20th century, including the Russian revolution and the Stalinist period, and explores the appeal of certain themes, such as the Passion of Christ. A radical new theorization of the influence of religion over visual art, Faith in Art asks why metaphysics has been eliminated from the discussion where it might have something to say. This is a new way of thinking about a hundred years of abstract painting.

Author : Luis J. Pedrazuela
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793654472

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Alexandre Kojève by Luis J. Pedrazuela Pdf

Alexandre Kojève: A Man of influence offers a multi-faceted approach to the work of Alexandre Kojève in which 11 international scholars combine their perspectives on key aspects of the Russo-French thinker's work. The result: an original reappraisal of its significance that prompts a better understanding of the contemporary world.

Author : Jeff Wallace
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474461672

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Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity by Jeff Wallace Pdf

Explores abstraction as a keyword in aesthetic modernism and in critical thinking since Marx