The historic encounter around 1911 between the composer Arnold Sch???nberg and the painter Wassily Kandinsky occurred at a moment when the first wild revolts against traditional art, Dada and Futurism, had just manifested themselves. Independently of those sometimes spectacular activities, both Sch???nberg and Kandinsky had already concluded that the material and the compositional methods they had relied on in the past were exhausted and did not satisfy the development of their artistic ideas. Both artists had already ...
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The historic encounter around 1911 between the composer Arnold Sch???nberg and the painter Wassily Kandinsky occurred at a moment when the first wild revolts against traditional art, Dada and Futurism, had just manifested themselves. Independently of those sometimes spectacular activities, both Sch???nberg and Kandinsky had already concluded that the material and the compositional methods they had relied on in the past were exhausted and did not satisfy the development of their artistic ideas. Both artists had already submitted their modes of production to a critical analysis which resulted in Schonberg's Theory of Harmony and Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art , both of 1911 - indeed the two artists had already been putting their self-criticism into practice for some time. In Sch???nberg's case this led to breaking with tonality; Kandinsky effected the transition to abstract painting. This book is a collection of the papers presented at the conference on Sch???nberg and Kandin
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Very Good. Size: 10x0x7; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. xvii, 224 pages: illustrations (some color); 25 cm. This book is a collection of the papers presented at the Schonberg and Kandinsky conference at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 1993, focusing on the varying aspects of the avant-garde from 1910 to 1913.