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Yale University Press, 1995. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1650grams, ISBN:9780300056471
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Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist As Ethnographer and Shaman Hardcover - 1995
by Weiss, Peg
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- Title Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist As Ethnographer and Shaman
- Author Weiss, Peg
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 312
- Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
- Date 1995
- ISBN 9780300056471
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. First. Hardcover. NF/NF. Dutch blue cloth/boards with orange lettering. Color-illus. dj with white lettering. 291 pp. with color and bw images throughout. "Vasilii Kandinsky, whom many consider to be the father of abstract painting, was also trained as an ethnographer with an abiding interest in the folkore of Old Russia. Weiss describes Kandinsky's university training in ethnography, his involvement with the country's most influential ethnographic [society] and the literature he read while writing reviews for the society's journal. She shows that Kandinsky's knowledge of Finno-Ugric, Lapp, and Siberian shamanism and folklore provided him with an indelible palette of iconographic references that resonated in his work," identifying specific examples of ethnographic and folkloristic in his works. Weiss argues that "Kandinsky's paintings consistently reflect....his belief in the shamanistic calling of the artist to provide a means of cultural healing and…
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Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist as Ethnographer and Shaman
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Yale University Press, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Well-kept clean copy. With 203 illustrations printed on thick matte paper. Deep blue covers looking near bright as new. Rear cover has fading along spine border. Heavy book. .
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Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist as Ethnographer and Shaman
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Yale University Press. A beautiful clean crisp hardcover copy in very good condition, faintly bumped corners else fine. DJ in near fine condition and in protective mylar cover. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1995.
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Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist as Ethnographer and Shaman
by Weiss, Peg
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Yale University Press, New Haven, 1995. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 292 pages. Square format hardcover, bound in blue cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. An early gift inscription on the front free endpaper has been undecorously blacked out with marker. The previous owner, an institutional library, has also discreetly stamped its name on the title page, as well as a separate Withdrawn stamp. There is also an institutional label which has been blacked out with marker on the rear pastedown. Otherwise, the binding is tight, the edges and corners of the boards are sharp, the dustjacket is bright, now also encased in a Mylar sleeve, and the interior is, aside from the aforementioned, free of other markings. Texts in English, with illustrations in color. Extensive bibliography and index..
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