TY - BOOK ID - 724220 TI - Concerning the Spiritual—and the Concrete—in Kandinsky’s Art PY - 2020 SN - 9780804784832 9780804784849 9780804789233 0804784841 0804784833 0804789231 PB - Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Aesthetics KW - Kandinsky, Vasili Vassileevich KW - Aesthetics. KW - Art KW - Painting, Modern KW - Painting, Abstract. KW - Esthétique KW - Peinture KW - Peinture abstraite KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophie KW - Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, KW - Kandinsky, Wassily, KW - Painting, Abstract KW - Groupe Mémoires (Group of artists) KW - Abstract painting KW - Non-objective painting KW - Painting, Non-objective KW - Beautiful, The KW - Beauty KW - Art and philosophy KW - Esthetics KW - Taste (Aesthetics) KW - Philosophy KW - Criticism KW - Literature KW - Proportion KW - Symmetry KW - Analysis, interpretation, appreciation KW - Psychology KW - Kandinski, Vasilij, KW - Kandinskiĭ, Vasiliĭ, KW - Kandinskiĭ, Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich, KW - Kandinskij, Vasilij Vasil'evič, KW - Kandinsky, KW - Kandinsky, Basile W., KW - Kandinsky, Vasily, KW - Kandinsky, Vassily, KW - Kandinsky, Wassili, KW - Kandinsky, Wassily Wassilyevich, KW - Kʻang-ting-ssu-chi, KW - Kʻang-ting-ssu-chi, Wa-hsi-li, KW - Кандинский, Василий, KW - Кандинский, Василий Васильевич, KW - קנדינסקי, וסילי, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Kandinskiĭ, V. V. KW - Кандинский, В. В. KW - Kangdingsiji, KW - 康定斯基, KW - Kangdingsiji,, Waxili, KW - 康定斯基, 瓦西里, KW - Groupe Mémoires (Group of artists) KW - Kandinskiĭ, Vasiliĭ, KW - Кандинский, Василий, KW - Kandinskiĭ, Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich, KW - Кандинский, Василий Васильевич, KW - Kandinskiĭ, V. V. KW - Кандинский, В. В. KW - Kandinskij, Vasilij Vasil'evič, KW - Kʻang-ting-ssu-chi, KW - 康定斯基, KW - Kʻang-ting-ssu-chi, Wa-hsi-li, KW - 康定斯基, 瓦西里, KW - קנדינסקי, וסילי, KW - Art -- Philosophy. KW - Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, -- 1770-1831. -- Ästhetik. KW - Kandinsky, Wassily, -- 1866-1944 -- Criticism and interpretation. KW - Painting, Modern -- 20th century. KW - Visual Arts KW - Art, Architecture & Applied Arts KW - Painting KW - Art, Occidental KW - Art, Visual KW - Art, Western (Western countries) KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Visual KW - Fine arts KW - Iconography KW - Occidental art KW - Visual arts KW - Western art (Western countries) KW - Arts KW - Modern painting KW - Paintings, Modern KW - Art, Primitive KW - Radio broadcasting Aesthetics KW - Kandinsky, Wassily KW - Painting, Modern. KW - Art. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:724220 AB - This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he published in 1911. Where most scholars have taken its repeated references to "spirit" as signaling quasi-religious or mystical concerns, Florman argues instead that Kandinsky's primary frame of reference was G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics, in which art had similarly been presented as a vehicle for the developing self-consciousness of spirit (or Geist, in German). In addition to close readings of Kandinsky's writings, the book also includes a discussion of a 1936 essay on the artist's paintings written by his own nephew, philosopher Alexandre Kojève, the foremost Hegel scholar in France at that time. It also provides detailed analyses of individual paintings by Kandinsky, demonstrating how the development of his oeuvre challenges Hegel's views on modern art, yet operates in much the same manner as does Hegel's philosophical system. Through the work of a single, crucial artist, Florman presents a radical new account of why painting turned to abstraction in the early years of the twentieth century. ER -