On the Spiritual in Art: First Complete English Translation With Four Full Color Page Reproductions, Woodcuts and Half Tones
New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, For the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, 1946.
First Complete English Translation. Hardcover.
Includes the artist’s Forewords to the First Original Edition (1911), Second Original Edition (1912), and to the 1946 New York Edition (the first complete English translation of 1946).
Russian-born abstract artist and theorist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) argues that artists, like musicians, should strive to express their inner lives using abstract, non-material principles.
Item #9024197 x 9-1/4", black cloth with gilt titles spine and front board, color plate pasted-on front board, 154pp, 4 color plates (including plate on front board), frontis. photograph of the artist and reproduction of the original cover, 19 additional full-page black & white illustrations in the text.
Fading to spine titles, general toning to leaves, tight, square, clean of owner's marks, a very good copy of this seminal work on abstract art theory.
Price: $300.00