{"title":"Hajo Düchting","description":"\u003cp\u003eHajo Düchting’s works offer insightful explorations into the world of modern art, blending detailed scholarship with vivid narrative. His studies on artists like Kandinsky provide a rich understanding of artistic movements and the cultural contexts that shaped them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e will appreciate Düchting’s ability to illuminate complex themes with clarity, making his books essential for those seeking a deeper appreciation of 20th-century art and its key figures.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vasily-kandinsky-by-hajo-duchting-9783777427591","title":"Vasily Kandinsky","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVasily Kandinsky\u003c\/em\u003e by Hajo Düchting explores the life and work of one of the first painters of abstract art and a founding member of the Blue Rider movement. Although he trained as a lawyer, Kandinsky abandoned this career path to devote himself to art, both as a creator and an influential teacher and theorist at the Bauhaus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver time, Kandinsky's works grew more abstract, and he is best known for large, expressive paintings that free colour from form and line. The book covers the entire span of his career, with a particular focus on his time at the Bauhaus, where he collaborated with Lyonel Feininger and Paul Klee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLively, accessible, and lavishly illustrated, this new book offers a concise introduction to the life and work of this great master of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47341853737196,"sku":"9783777427591","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26065633483532.jpg?v=1772194041"},{"product_id":"kandinsky-by-hajo-duchting-9783836507462","title":"Kandinsky","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the course of his artistic career, \u003cb\u003eWassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)\u003c\/b\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 \u003cb\u003espiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of colour and line\u003c\/b\u003e and is today credited with creating \u003cb\u003ethe first purely abstract work\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs much a teacher and theorist as he was a practising artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theatre, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential \u003cb\u003eBlaue Reiter\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eBauhaus\u003c\/b\u003e groups and left a legacy not only of dazzling visual work, but also of highly influential treatises such as \u003cem\u003eConcerning the Spiritual in Art\u003c\/em\u003e. Key tenets included the \u003cb\u003econnections between painting, music\u003c\/b\u003e and mystical experience, and the purification of art away from material realism and towards an \u003cb\u003eemotional expression, condensed in particular by colour\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKandinsky\u003c\/em\u003e presents key Kandinsky works to introduce his repertoire of vivid colours, forms, and feelings. Tracing the artist's radical stylistic development, it shows how one painter's progression paved the way for generations of abstract expression to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596719603948,"sku":"9783836507462","price":45.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783836507462-kandinsky.jpg?v=1777938464"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/hajo-duchting.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}