{"id":934,"date":"2016-08-03T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T21:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarycommunications\/?p=934"},"modified":"2024-04-16T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:46:34","slug":"a-howard-this-is-kandinsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/scholarlycommunications\/2016\/08\/03\/a-howard-this-is-kandinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"A. Howard – This is Kandinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year UVic faculty, staff, students, alumni, and retirees produce an incredible amount of intellectual content reflecting their breadth and diversity of research, teaching, personal, and professional interests. A list of these works is available here<\/a>.\"This<\/a><\/p>\n

UVic alum and current CSRS Artist-in-Residence Annabel Howard has authored a new book on the life and work of artist Wassily Kandinsky, titled This is Kandinsky<\/strong><\/a>. The book is visually stunning and contains 50 color illustrations.\u00a0 It is a must-read book for anyone interested in abstract art, Kandinsky, or art history.<\/p>\n

About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Intellectual, emotional, restless, dogged, loyal, selfish; Kandinsky was an artist \u2013 and a man \u2013 of contradictions.<\/p>\n

This genre-defying painter didn\u2019t pick up a brush until he was thirty years old. He was an academic with a promising career that he threw away to explore the arts. He was a Russian, yet he spent more than half of his life on the road, and died in self-imposed exile in France. As an artist he is credited with history\u2019s first abstract painting, but it was his theories that had a profound and lasting impact on the way that people understand and value what art can achieve.<\/p>\n

Richly illustrated with specially commissioned artworks and 20 of Kandinsky\u2019s major works, This is Kandinsky<\/em> forms the perfect introduction to the life of this revolutionary figure in twentieth-century art.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"howard-profile-photo\"<\/a>Annabel Howard is a writer from Norfolk, Britain. She has a degree in Art History from Christ Church, Oxford, a Masters in Biographical writing from the University of East Anglia, and a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. Her essays and creative non-fiction have been published in The White Review, The Spectator, Glass Magazine, Notes from the Underground<\/em>, and National Geographic Travel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She is currently artist-in-residence at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Victoria, where she is working on a collection of essays that meditate on tradition and its role in the modern world.\u00a0 Her current project is titled, The Scarlet Ox and the Black Madonna<\/em>.<\/p>\n

About the Illustrator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam Simpson’s work has been shortlisted for a British Design Award. In 2009 he was included in the Art Directors Club Young Guns awards. Projects include artworks for BAFTA, Conran, and a stamp commemorating the London Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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