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Paperback Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty Book

ISBN: 164423081X

ISBN13: 9781644230817

Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty

A compilation of esoteric musings, Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty explores Alexandre Koj?ve's philosophical approach to the relationship between art and beauty.

A teacher to Jacques Lacan, Andr? Breton, and Albert Camus, Koj?ve defined art as the act of extracting the beautiful from objective reality. His poetic text, "The Concrete Paintings of Kandinsky," endorses nonrepresentational art as uniquely manifesting beauty. Taking the paintings of his renowned uncle, Wassily Kandinsky, as his inspiration, Koj?ve suggests that in creating (rather than replicating) beauty, the paintings are themselves complete universes as concrete as the natural world. Koj?ve's text considers the utility and necessity of beauty in life, and ultimately poses the involuted question: What is beauty?

Including personal letters between Kandinsky and his nephew, this book further elaborates the unique relationship between artist and philosopher. An introduction by Boris Groys contextualizes Koj?ve's life and writings.

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