{"product_id":"wassily-kandinsky-the-sketchbooks-hardcover","title":"Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLarry Warsh\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDieter Buchhart\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWassily Kandinsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory collection of the artist's sketches and preparatory drawings, featuring many that have never been published before\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe great Russian modernist painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Few documents provide more insight into his evolution from figural to abstract art--or into the development of abstraction in the early twentieth century--than the pages of his sketchbooks. Featuring previously unpublished drawings, \u003ci\u003eWassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive selection of hundreds of sketches from twelve notebooks Kandinsky kept between 1889 and 1935. Beginning with early figure studies, architectural sketches, and landscapes, the notebooks reveal a process of exploration that would lead Kandinsky from his first experiments in geometric abstraction to paintings that reshaped modernism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDemonstrating Kandinsky's mastery of color, line, shape, composition, and movement, the book includes notes and preparatory studies for major paintings, such as the \"analytical drawing\" for \u003ci\u003eComposition VII\u003c\/i\u003e (1913), the first study for \u003ci\u003eSeveral Circles\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), and \u003ci\u003eStudy for Composition IX\u003c\/i\u003e, a preliminary working of his 1936 masterpiece. Visually stunning, the book offers a remarkable, intimate look at how Kandinsky sought to discover nothing less than a spiritually transcendent form of art.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWassily Kandinsky\u003c\/b\u003e (1866-1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist and one of the pioneers of pure abstraction in early twentieth-century art. \u003cb\u003eLarry Warsh\u003c\/b\u003e has been active in the art world for more than thirty years as a publisher and artist-collaborator, and was a founding member of the Basquiat Authentication Committee. He is the editor of the ISMs series, including \u003ci\u003eHolzer-isms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbramovic-isms\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as Basquiat's \u003ci\u003eThe Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJames Rosenquist: Collages, Drawings, and Paintings in Process\u003c\/i\u003e (all Princeton), among many other books. \u003cb\u003eDieter Buchhart\u003c\/b\u003e is a curator and art critic who has organized exhibitions at museums around the world, including the Guggenheim Bilbao, Fondation Louis Vuitton, and Mus?e d'Art Moderne de Paris. He writes frequently for \u003ci\u003eKunstforum International.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 10.6 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44814187823206,"sku":"9780691268507","price":48.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Y9K047_-e-9780691268507.webp?v=1771833309","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/wassily-kandinsky-the-sketchbooks-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}