Uber das Geistige in der Kunst, 1912
Woodcuts, illustrations, and letterpress; bound volumeexpand_more
The Mary and Robyn Campbell Fund for Art Booksexpand_more 2000.14
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In 1911, Russian-born theorist and pioneer of abstract art Vassily Kandinsky published "Concerning the Spiritual in Art," which ranks among the most significant documents in 20th-century art. Kandinsky writes, “All means [in painting] are sacred when they are dictated by inner necessity. All means are reprehensible when they do not spring from the fountain of inner necessity.” In this treatise, he calls for a spiritual revolution in painting that permits artists to abstractly express their own inner lives through form and color, and to value spirituality over naturalistic or materialistic representations.
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- Title
- Uber das Geistige in der Kunst
- Artist Life
- French, born Russia, 1866–1944
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2000.14
- Provenance
- [Sims Reed Rare Books, London]; sold to MIA, 2000.
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