Kandinsky: Punkt und Linie zu Fläche
München: Albert Langen, 1926. Second edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. 190 (8)pp. Original illustrated white wraps with white and black lettering on cover, white on blue spine. Cover design by Kandinsky. Publisher's device on half-title. Bauhausbücher No. 9. Supervision by Gropius and Moholy-Nagy, printed by Hesse and Becker, typography Herbert Bayer. Kandinsky considered this book to be an organic continuation of his title "Über das Geistige in der Kunst" presenting a probe of his theoretic thinking and practical experience, based on material from the beginning of the war created during his three months stay in Goldach at the Bodensee, material that had been untouched for ten years. In the foreword Kandinsky points to the beginning of Art Science and its precise question that lead beyond the boundaries of painting and art in general. Illustrated with 102 figures, 25 tables and one four-color print at rear, Kleiner Traum in rot (Little Dream in Red). Text in German. Wraps somewhat browned with wear along edges and spine, small chips and creasing with joints of spine cracked but firmly holding. Some light water staining at lower right of cover and minor soiling on back cover. Back flap split a little more than half from bottom at folding crease. Wraps in overall good-, interior in very good condition. g- to vg. Item #39698
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