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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His 'Sounds' ('Klange') of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist's book. Its "sound poems" are alternately narrative and expressive, witty and simple in form. They treat questions of space, color, physical design, and the act of seeing in a world that offers multiple and often contradictory possibilities. The woodcut illustrations that accompany the poems range from representational designs to abstract vignettes. In its fusion of image and word, 'Sounds' epitomizes the artist's move toward abstraction and his aspiration to a synthesis of the arts. This updated edition of 'Sounds' includes all of the book's poems in English and German and all of its woodcuts, with color reproductions of the twelve originally printed in color. The translator's introduction offers close formal examination of the poems and situates 'Sounds' in the context of Kandinsky's oeuvre. Although it was prized by prominent 20th-century artists, 'Sounds' has remained less well understood than Kandinsky's theoretical writings. This edition captures the artist's vision and affirms the significance of this pivotal work

Wood-engraving. --- Wood-engraving. --- Poetry. --- Artists' books. --- Wood-engraving. --- Kandinsky, Wassily, --- Kandinsky, Wassily. --- Kandinsky, Wassily,

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In 1919, the state art school in Weimar was re-opened under the direction of Walter Gropius, with a radical new teaching approach and under the new name Bauhaus. Four years would go by until the first exhibition, which presented a novel approach to art to an enthusiastic public and spread the school's ideas throughout the world. The catalogue "Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923" was published in 1923 to accompany this first public showcase. This catalogue of its transdisciplinary oeuvre put the Bauhaus idea on paper for the first time and gave an idea of its potential. Featuring numerous projects, the catalogue also describes the theoretical doctrines of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Gertrud Grunow, and thus conveys the teaching methods applied in the various workshops. Gropius's preface explains the structure of the state-run Bauhaus and introduces its unique reform program, which called for and taught the unity of technology and art. Illustrations from the various workshops show projects by students whose connection with the Bauhaus is still largely unexplored today. With the original layout by László Moholy-Nagy and a cover designed by Herbert Bayer, the book represents an important testimony to the legendary avant-garde movement, shedding light on the work and aspirations of the Bauhaus from its earliest days. The commentary accompanying this facsimile edition places this momentous publication, long out of print, in a historical context, documenting the Bauhaus from initial idea to the standing it would attain as a pre-eminent school of art and design. The German facsimile is accompanied by the first full English translation of the catalogue, making it accessible to an international audience.

Architecture --- Bauhaus --- Kandinsky, Vasili Vassileevich --- Gropius, Walter --- Bauhaus-Universität Weimar --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- Weimar --- Art, German --- Art --- Design --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- History --- Klee, Paul, --- Kandinsky, Wassily, --- Grunow, Gertrud, --- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) --- Intellectual life --- Bauhaus. --- Intellectual life. --- Art, German - Germany - Weimar (Thuringia) - 20th century --- Art - Study and teaching (Higher) - Germany - History - 20th century --- Design - Germany - History - 20th century --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Germany - History - 20th century --- Klee, Paul, - 1879-1940 --- Kandinsky, Wassily, - 1866-1944 --- Grunow, Gertrud, - 1870-1944 --- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) - Intellectual life --- Kandinsky, Wassily

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Throughout the 1920s and ’30s, the Higher Art and Technical Studios in Moscow, more commonly known as Vkhutemas, adopted what it called the “objective method” to facilitate instruction on a mass scale. The school was the first to implement mass art and technology education, which was seen as essential to the Soviet Union’s dominant modernist paradigm.With Avant-Garde as Method, architect and historian Anna Bokov explores the nature of art and technology education in the Soviet Union. The pedagogical program at Vkhutemas, she shows, combined longstanding academic ideas and practices with more nascent industrial era ones to initiate a new type of pedagogy that took an explorative approach and drew its strength from continuous feedback and exchange between students and educators. Elaborating on the ways the Vkhutemas curriculum challenged established canons of academic tradition by replacing it with open-ended inquiry, Bokov then shows how this came to be articulated in architectural and urban projects within the school’s advanced studios.

Higher education --- Architecture --- architectural education --- avant-garde --- architectural theory --- Avant-garde (esthétique) --- Philosophie --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Architecture, Russian --- Architecture, Modern --- Bauhaus --- Avant-garde --- Enseignement de l'architecture --- Constructivisme --- Arts graphiques --- Ladovsky, Nikolay --- VKhUTEMAS (Art school) --- History --- URSS --- 7.037(47) --- 373.67.03(47) --- 373.67.02 --- Vesnin, Alexander --- Tatlin, Vladimir --- Turkus, Mikhail --- Stepanova, Varvara --- Rodchenko, Alexander --- Popova, Lyubov --- Lissitzky, Lazar (El) --- Krinsky, Vladimir --- Khan-Magomedov, Selim --- Kandinsky, Wassily --- Gropius, Walter --- Dokuchaev, Nikolay --- Architectuuronderwijs ; VKhUTEMAS --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 1900 - 1950 ; Rusland --- Onderwijs ; kunst- architectuuronderwijs ; geschiedenis ; jaarboeken ; Rusland --- Onderwijs ; kunst- architectuuronderwijs ; didactiek en methode --- 72.03 --- 7.036 --- 72.036 --- 373.67 --- Vkhutemas --- Avant-Garde --- Moskou --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- 20ste eeuw (kunst) --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Architectuuronderwijs --- Art schools --- Écoles des Beaux-Arts --- Avant-garde (Art) --- Arts --- Study and teaching --- Étude et enseignement --- Architecture, Modern - 20th century --- Avant-garde (esthétique)