Schonberg and Kandinsky

Schonberg and Kandinsky
Author: Konrad Boehmer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113664928X

The historic encounter around 1911 between the composer Arnold Schönberg and the painter Wassily Kandinsky occurred at a moment when the first wild revolts against traditional art, Dada and Futurism, had just manifested themselves. Independently of those sometimes spectacular activities, both Schönberg and Kandinsky had already concluded that the material and the compositional methods they had relied on in the past were exhausted and did not satisfy the development of their artistic ideas. Both artists had already submitted their modes of production to a critical analysis which resulted in Schonberg's Theory of Harmony and Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art , both of 1911 - indeed the two artists had already been putting their self-criticism into practice for some time. In Schönberg's case this led to breaking with tonality; Kandinsky effected the transition to abstract painting. This book is a collection of the papers presented at the conference on Schönberg and Kandin

Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider

Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider
Author: Magdalena Dabrowski
Publisher: Scala Books
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2003
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The intellectual dialogue and friendship between two key modernist artists - the painter Wassily Kandinsky and the composer Arnold Schoenberg - forms the focal point of this fascinating survey, charting the early 20th century parallel movements towards abstraction in art and atonality in music.

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Author: Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 048613248X

Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.

The Blaue Reiter Almanac

The Blaue Reiter Almanac
Author: Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2006-01
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN: 9781854376732

The Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) art movement was founded in 1911, by the young painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and remained active in Europe until 1914. Originally published in Munich, in 1912, and edited by Kandinsky and Marc, The Blaue Reiter Almanac presented the movement's synthesis of international culture to the European avant-garde at large. In both the selection of the essays and its innovative interplay of word and image, the Almanac remains one of the most critically important works on artistic theory and culture of the twentieth century. This edition, long unavailable in English and indispensable to any student of modernism, includes the original documents and musical notations, as well as essays by Kandinsky, Schonberg, Marc, and others, and an extensive critical introduction, placing the Blaue Reiter in context for contemporary readers.

Kandinsky

Kandinsky
Author: Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher: Parkstone International
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-07-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1785250604

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works received heavy censure at the time, in later years they would become greatly influential.

Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925

Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925
Author: Leah Dickerman
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0870708287

This book explores the development of abstraction from the moment of its declaration around 1912 to its establishment as the foundation of avant-garde practice in the mid-1920s. The book brings together many of the most influential works in abstractions early history to draw a cross-media portrait of this watershed moment in which traditional art was reinvented in a wholesale way. Works are presented in groups that serve as case studies, each engaging a key topic in abstractions first years: an artist, a movement, an exhibition or thematic concern. Key focal points include Vasily Kandinskys ambitious Compositions V, VI and VII; a selection of Piet Mondrians work that offers a distilled narrative of his trajectory to Neo-plasticism; and all the extant Suprematist pictures that Kazimir Malevich showed in the landmark 0.10 exhibition in 1915.0Exhibition: MoMA, New York, USA (23.12.2012-15.4.2013).

Kandinsky Compositions

Kandinsky Compositions
Author: Magdalena Dabrowski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1995
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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

Style and Idea

Style and Idea
Author: Arnold Schoenberg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520052949

One of the most influential collections of music ever published, Style and Idea includes Schoenberg’s writings about himself and his music as well as studies of many other composers and reflections on art and society.

Arnold Schoenberg's Journey

Arnold Schoenberg's Journey
Author: Allen Shawn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674011014

In this text, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgements about Arnold Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's world in a series of linked essays that are searching and suggestive. Approaching Schoenberg primarily from a listener's point of view, Shawn plunges into the details of some of Schoenberg's works while at the same time providing a broad overview of his involvements in music, painting and the history through which he lived.