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Concerning the Spiritual-and the Concrete-in Kandinsky's Art (Paperback)
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Concerning the Spiritual-and the Concrete-in Kandinsky's Art (Paperback)
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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 Kojeve, 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.
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