Barnett, Vivian Endicott; Tracey Bashkoff; Christian Derouet; et al. — Kandinsky

New York, Guggenheim Museum, 2009. Hardcover. Color-illus. boards with red lettering. Glossy, white dj with cut-out circles, showing board illus. underneath. 319 pp. 95 color plates and many additional images in color and black and white. Color plates and checklist of 95 works in the exhibition, six essays, a chronology and selected bibliography. This volume presents abstract Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). It reproduces scores of recently rediscovered paintings that had languished for decades in Soviet museums and in private collections. The author provides new details on Kandinsky's life and art, discussing his little-known experimental stage plays which strove for a synthesis of all the arts, and his friendships with Paul Klee, Arnold Schonberg and composer Thomas de Hartmann. Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Guggenheim September 2009 to January 2010. The same exhibition was shown prior to the Guggenheim in Munich and Paris, with separate catalogues, of different titles. This catalogue is in English only. Fine/Fine .