Gan’s Constructivism: Aesthetic Theory
for an Embedded Modernism
By Kristin Romberg. 312 pp. incl. 72 col. + 38
b. & w. ills. (University of California Press,
Oakland, 2018), £54. ISBN 978–0–520–29853–8. |
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1. Elementary life of the primary colour and its dependence on the simplest locale, by Vasily Kandinsky. Illustration to the lecture ‘On the Spiritual in Art’ delivered by Nikolai Kul’bin on Kandinsky’s behalf at the All-Russian Congress of Artists, St Petersburg, 29th and 31st December 1911. Published in Russian in I. Repin et al.: Trudy Vserossiiskogo s’ezda khudozhnikov (Transactions of the All-Russian Congress of artists), Petrograd 1914, I, pp.76–77.
Attributed works:
2. Improvisation 10, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1910. Canvas, 120 by 140 cm. (Fondation Beyeler, Basel; photograph courtesy Peter Schibli).
Attributed works:
3. Tsikl lektsii (Cycle of lectures), by Nikolay Punin. Petrograd 1920. Cover designed by Kazimir Malevich. (Photograph courtesy Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
5. Black lines, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1913. 129.4 by 131.1 cm. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Painting with the red spot, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1914. Canvas, 130 by 130 cm. (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Members of RAKhN (Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences) in the building of Svomas (Free State Art Studios), Moscow, June 1921. From left to right: Robert Fal’k, Evsei Shor, Nikolai Uspensky, Vasily Kandinsky, Evgenii Pavlov and Aleksandr Shenshin. Reproduced in C. Derouet and J. Boissel, eds.: exh. cat. Œuvres de Vassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Paris (Centre Georges Pompidou) 1984, p.156.
Publication Received
Constructivism. By Aleksei Gan, translation and introduction by Christina Lodder.