Artist:
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Vassily Kandinsky Published by R. Piper and Co. , Munich
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Title:
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Uber das Geistige in der Kunst
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Date:
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1912
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Medium:
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Woodcuts, illustrations, letterpress
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Dimensions:
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8 1/4 x 7 3/16 x 3/8 in. (20.96 x 18.26 x 0.95 cm)
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Credit Line:
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The Mary and Robyn Campbell Fund for Art Books
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Location:
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Gallery 180
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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, âAll 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.â 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.
Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Kandinsky, Vassily
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Nationality:
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Russian
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Life Dates:
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Russian, 1866-1944
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Name:
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R. Piper and Co.
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Role:
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Publisher
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Books
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Physical Description:
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treatise on modern art with 10 original woodcuts and text by Vassily Kandinsky; first edition
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Russia, , ,
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Edition:
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First edition of 1,000
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Accession #:
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2000.14
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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