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Seeing the invisible : on Kandinsky /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henry, Michel, 1922-2002
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, [2009]
Subjects:
Kandinsky, Wassily, > 1866-1944 > Psychology.
Painting, Abstract.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Internal/external : the invisible and the visible
  • The meaning of abstract in the expression abstract painting
  • Form
  • Pure pictorial form
  • Abstract form : the theory of elements
  • The disclosure of pictoriality
  • Point
  • Line
  • The picture plane
  • The unity of the elements
  • Invisible colours
  • Forms and colours
  • Difficulties concerning the unity between colours and forms
  • Composition
  • Monumental art
  • Music and painting
  • The essence of art
  • All painting is abstract
  • Art and the cosmos.