{"product_id":"kandinsky-hardcover-by-hajo-duchting","title":"Kandinsky (Hardcover) by Hajo Duchting","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOver the course of his artistic career, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eWassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003espiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eand is today credited with creating \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ethe first purely abstract work\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"3836507463\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"yl8tpj-drk86m-pdugvj-dtc6sa\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky’s interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBlaue Reiter\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBauhaus\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egroups and left a legacy not only of dazzling visual work, but also of highly influential treatises such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eConcerning the Spiritual in Art\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Key tenets included the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003econnections between painting, music\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and mystical experience, and the purification of art away from material realism and towards an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eemotional expression, condensed in particular by color\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents key Kandinsky works to introduce his repertoire of vivid colors, forms, and feelings. 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