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Lisa Florman is Professor in the History of Art Department at Ohio State University. She is the author of Myth and Metamorphosis (2000).
Lisa Florman's Concerning the Spiritual - and the Concrete - in Kandinsky's Art is a welcome addition to the literature on modernist painting. Setting out to do nothing less than reframe central issues in our understanding of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Florman insists that we take seriously Kandinsky's ambitions not only as a pioneering abstract painter but also as a writer engaged with philosophical aesthetics. Vigorously argued, this is a book intended to spark debate. It deserves a wide readership in art history and beyond. - Brigid Doherty, Associate Professor of Art & Archaeology and German and Director of the Program in European Cultural Studies, Princeton University Like most readers, I have always understood Kandinsky's position as an expressionist-romantic one (that conceives of the picture as a portrait of the artist's inner self). Florman cogently demonstrates that we have had it all wrong and that Kandinsky's On the Spiritual in Art is directly and profoundly indebted to the philosophy of Hegel. To my knowledge, this is the first book entirely dedicated to one of the most important art treatises of the 20th century, and it patiently upturns almost everything we thought we knew about it. - Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advance Study
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