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[KANDINSKY, Wassily (1866-1944)]. Trudy vserossiis

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Petrograd: [Golike and A. Vilborg, n.d.]. 3 volumes. Folio (350 x 253mm. and smaller). Plates, occasional illustrations. Later grey cloth with original paper wrappers mounted on the upper and lower covers (volumes I and III) or orginal wrappers (volume II). Condition: light overall toning, occasional small marginal tears to volume II; light soiling to volumes I and III, volume II with stitching broken, covers detached and lightly soiled, backstrip lacking. FIRST PUBLICATION IN RUSSIAN OF KANDINSKY'S SEMINAL ESSAY "ON THE SPIRITUAL IN ART." With addresses by Alexandre Benois, Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, Nicolai Ivan Kulbin and others. The All-Russian Congress of Artists in 1911 combined both the new and the old. It held the first exhibition of restored icons; and Kandinsky's famous statement "O dukhovnom v iskusstve (zhivopis)" ["On the Spiritrual in Art (Painting)"] was presented in December. It was published for the first time in Russian here in the first volume of the official proceedings of the Congress, pp. 47-52. Kandinsky passionately argued for nonobjective art and thus defined the modern concept of abstract art. Franz Marc arranged for the essay's publication in Munich and an English translation came out in 1914. Not in MoMA. (3)

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