Pritiazhenie bespredmetnosti. K 150-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia Vasiliia Vasil'evicha Kandinskogo (1866 - 1944) (The pull of the abstract: [published on the occasion of] the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vasilii Vasil'evich Kandinskogo (1866 - 1944))
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Saddle-stitched. This concise catalogue of a very focused Hermitage exhibition brings together paintings from the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery that reveal the process of Kandinskii's phasing out figurative painting and realizing the potential of composing a work from sundry shapes of color. His experiments rethinking..... More