Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist, author of Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1912) and Point to Line and Plane (1926). Elizabeth R. Napier is professor of English and American literatures at Middlebury College. Her literary translations include Selected Poems and Related Prose by F. T. Marinetti (co-translated with Barbara R. Studholme, Yale, 2002).
“I remember buying a copy of Sounds when it was first published in
English, and the thrill of discovering this work, page by page.
Kandinsky’s synthesis of abstraction and representation, of sound
and meaning, remains an exciting challenge for artists and poets
today. Sounds is unlike any other book. It belongs on the
bookshelf of anyone interested in abstract art, poetry, and the
unpredictable cavorting of the two.”—John Yau, author of Bijoux in
the Dark
“Possibly the most beautiful, innovative, and influential artist’s
book of the twentieth century. A landmark that synthesizes
Kandinsky’s pioneering abstractions with his radical sound
poems and experimental typography.”—Starr Figura, The Museum of
Modern Art, New York
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