Sounds

Synopsis

A dazzling yet little-known artist’s book that distills the painter’s seminal interests in abstraction and the unity of the arts wassily kandinsky (1866–1944) was a russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His sounds (klänge) 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.