{"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\/products\/kandinsky-by-hajo-duchting-9783836507462","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}