Experiment No. 8

Vasilii Kandinsky and the Science of Art

This eighth number (fall, 2002) of Experiment is entitled Vasilii Kandinsky and the Science of Art (Kandinsky and Soviet Academic Institutions, 1917-21)

Preface: Vivian Endicott Barnett

• Natal'ia Avtonomova and Dmitrii Sarab'ianov: "Vasilii Kandinsky. Chronology, 1917-21"
• John E. Bowlt and Nicoletta Misler: “Uncharted Territory: Vasilii Kandinsky and the Soviet Union”
• Jean-Claude Marcadé: “Vasilii Kandinsky, a Russian Artist”
• Boris Sokolov: “Vasilii Kandinsky and Messianic Theater”

On the Spiritual in Art

• Jelena Hahl: "The Textual Variants of 'On the Spiritual in Art'"
• Vasilii Kandinsky: "On the Spiritual in Art" (1918-21)

Free State Art Studios, Moscow (Svomas)

Vasilii Kandinsky:

• “Theses for Teaching” (1918-19)
• Pedagogical Materials (ca. 1920):
• A. “Green. Blue, and Yellow”;
• B. “The Development of the Painterly Idea in Contemporary Art”;
• C. “The Essence of Form and the Formal; Element in Painting”.

 Institute of Artistic Culture, Moscow (Inkhuk)

Selim Khan-Magomedov:

• "Vasilii Kandinsky and the Section of Monumental Art at Inkhuk"

Vasilii Kandinsky:

• "Program of the Institute of Artistic Culture" (May, 1920)
• "Questionnaire" (May, 1920)
• "The Primary Elements of Painting. Their Essence and Value 
• "Brief Elucidation of a Theory of Painterly Form" (June, 1920)
• "Defining Time. A Discussion" (October, 1920)
• “Report at the First All-Russian Conference of Directors of the Subsections of the Arts” (December, 1921)

Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences, Moscow (RAKhN)

Nicoletta Misler:

• "Vasilii Kandinsky and the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences"

Vasilii Kandinsky:

• "On a Method for Working with Synthetic Art" (March-summer, 1921)
• "Plan for the Physico-Psychological Department of the Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences" (June, 1921) 
• "Work Plan for the Visual Arts Section of the Academy" (June, 1921)
• "The Primary Elements in Painting" (Theses) (September, 1921)
• "The Primary Elements in Painting" (Full text) (September, 1921)

Letters to

• Nadezhda Dobychina (1916-19)
• Aleksandr Shenshin (1922)
• Petr Kogan (1922)