Kandinsky's oeuvre, 1900-14 : the avant-garde as rear-guard

Author

Sheppard, Richard

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Word & image. 1990, Num. 1, Vol. 6, p. 41-67, 12 ill.

ISSN

0266-6286

Abstract (en)

Argues that Kandinsky's oeuvre--pictorial and literary--was generated from a conflict between a complex of pre-modern and utopian assumptions and a modernizing world which was perceived as fallen, chaotic and compromised; and that Kandinsky was able to resolve his situation theoretically in apocalyptic terms. Finally suggests that Kandinsky's commitment to apocalyptic notions of history, art and the place of the artist enabled him, after the war, to resolve his inner conflicts by means of the gradual repression of disturbing, chthonic elements and pictorial stylization.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945
• Kandinskij, Vasilij, 1866-1944
• Art
• Avant-garde
• 1900-1914
• Painting
• Prints
• Writings
• Artists' writings
• Apocalypticism
• Soviet Union

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945
• Kandinskij, Vasilij, 1866-1944
• Art
• Avant-garde
• 1900-1914
• Peinture
• Estampe
• Ecrits
• Ecrits d'artiste
• Apocalyptique
• Union soviétique

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920101-00418249

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