Individual artists, art monographs
This is Kandinsky
by Annabel Howard, Adam Simpson
Description
Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist – and a man – of contradictions.
This genre-defying painter didn’t pick up a brush until he was thirty years old. He was an academic with a promising career that he threw away to explore the arts. He was a Russian, yet he spent more than half of his life on the road, and died in self-imposed exile in France. As an artist he is credited with history’s first abstract painting, but it was his theories that had a profound and lasting impact on the way that people understand and value what art can achieve.
Richly illustrated with specially commissioned artworks and 20 of Kandinsky’s major works, This is Kandinsky forms the perfect introduction to the life of this revolutionary figure in twentieth-century art.
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Author Biography
Annabel Howard has a degree in Art History from Christ Church, Oxford, and a Masters in Biographical writing from the University of East Anglia. She has contributed articles to magazines including Glass, The Spectator and The White Review. Adam Simpson's work has been shortlisted for a British Design Award. In 2009 he was included in the Art Directors Club Young Guns awards. Projects include artworks for BAFTA, Conran and a stamp commemorating the London Olympics.
Laurence King Publishing Ltd
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Laurence King Publishing
- Publication Date September 2015
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781780675657
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- Primary Price 9.95 GBP
- Pages80
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions228x178 mm
- Illustration50 colour
- SeriesThis Is...
