Kandinsky - Russian and Bauhaus Years 1915 - 1933 (Art Ebook).pdf

Guggenheim | 1983 | Pdf | Eng | ISBN10 0892070447 | 360 pag | 16.5 MB

Exhibition catalog

Framed and punctuated by tumultuous historic events, the nineteen years of Kandinsky's Russian and Bauhaus periods witnessed the First World War, the Russian and German revolutions, the economic and political upheavals of the Weimar period and the Nazis' assumption of power. Having developed prior to 1914 an expressionist abstraction, Kandinsky continued to create an art of inner content, albeit much changed stylistically, and his response to those great external occurrences is manifested only generally and in a limited number of works