The Blue Rider's Almanac. The Blue Rider.
Klincksieck| N° d'inventaire | 23412 |
| Format | 15 x 21 |
| Détails | 360 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782252044742 |
In June 1911, Kandinsky wrote to Franz Marc: "I have a new project. A sort of almanac with reproductions and articles... and a column. A link with the past as well as a glimmer illuminating the future must bring this mirror to life... We will put an Egyptian work next to a little Zeh (name of two children gifted at drawing), a Chinese work next to a Douanier Rousseau, a popular drawing next to a Picasso and so on. Little by little we will attract writers and musicians. » Published in Munich in 1912, shortly after the Blaue Reiter Exhibition was held at the Tannhauser Gallery, the Almanac is the most stimulating example of the renewal of aesthetic forms in the fields of art, literature, music, and scenography, on the eve of the First World War, at a time when all forms of creation were engaged in a reassessment on which the entire artistic life of our time would depend. Illustrated with nearly 150 reproductions comparing works from the most diverse fields and periods, the texts by Kandinsky, Marc, and their friends (Macke, Bourliouk, Schoenberg, Allard, Sabaneev, etc.) constitute, as they wished, the signs of "the new inner renaissance," the signs of a "new epoch of the spiritual." Thanks to this "prophetic" work, as Klaus Lankheit, whose particular knowledge of the history of the Blaue Reiter qualified him better than anyone else to be its presenter, says, "this aspiration for a synthesis of culture, the old idea of German Romanticism - the total work of art - had entered a new phase of its realization." This translation of the Blaue Reiter Almanac faithfully reproduces all the articles and illustrations of the Munich original.
In June 1911, Kandinsky wrote to Franz Marc: "I have a new project. A sort of almanac with reproductions and articles... and a column. A link with the past as well as a glimmer illuminating the future must bring this mirror to life... We will put an Egyptian work next to a little Zeh (name of two children gifted at drawing), a Chinese work next to a Douanier Rousseau, a popular drawing next to a Picasso and so on. Little by little we will attract writers and musicians. » Published in Munich in 1912, shortly after the Blaue Reiter Exhibition was held at the Tannhauser Gallery, the Almanac is the most stimulating example of the renewal of aesthetic forms in the fields of art, literature, music, and scenography, on the eve of the First World War, at a time when all forms of creation were engaged in a reassessment on which the entire artistic life of our time would depend. Illustrated with nearly 150 reproductions comparing works from the most diverse fields and periods, the texts by Kandinsky, Marc, and their friends (Macke, Bourliouk, Schoenberg, Allard, Sabaneev, etc.) constitute, as they wished, the signs of "the new inner renaissance," the signs of a "new epoch of the spiritual." Thanks to this "prophetic" work, as Klaus Lankheit, whose particular knowledge of the history of the Blaue Reiter qualified him better than anyone else to be its presenter, says, "this aspiration for a synthesis of culture, the old idea of German Romanticism - the total work of art - had entered a new phase of its realization." This translation of the Blaue Reiter Almanac faithfully reproduces all the articles and illustrations of the Munich original.