The Blaue Reiter almanac

304 Pages·1974·22.149 MB·English

by  Franz Marc, Klaus Lankheit, Wassily Kandinsky

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The Blaue Reiter Almanac
THE DOCUMENTS OF
20TH-CENTURY ART
ROBERT MOTHERWELL,
GENERAL EDITOR
BERNARD KARPEL,
DOCUMENTARY EDITOR
ARTHUR A. COHEN,
MANAGING EDITOR
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THE BLAUE REITER ALMANAC
EDITED BY
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NEW DOCUMENTARY EDITION
EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
KLAUS LANKHEIT
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Der Blaue Reiter © R. Piper & Co. Verlag, München 1965
English-Language translation © 1974 by
Thames and Hudson Ltd, London
All rights reserved
Published in 1974 in a hardbound and paperback edition by
The Viking Press, Inc., 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022
Published simultaneously in Canada by
The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited
SBN 670-17355-x (hardbound)
670-01931-3 (paperback)
Library of Congress catalog card number: 75-170678
Printed in Germany by Herder Druck GmbH Freiburg
Bound in Holland
Translated by Henning Falkenstein,
with the assistance of Manug Terzian and Gertrude Hinderlie
Contents
Numbers in brackets represent page numbers of original edition
Preface to the English-Language Edition 7
Preface to the 1965 German Edition 8
A History of the Almanac by Klaus Lankheit 11
Spiritual Treasures by Franz Marc [1] 55
The “Savages” of Germany by Franz Marc [5] 61
Two Pictures by Franz Marc [8] 65
The “Savages” of Russia by D. Burliuk [13] 72
Quotation (Delacroix) [20] 81
Masks by August Macke [21] 83
The Relationship to the Text by Arnold Schönberg [27] 90
Poem by M. Kuzmin [34] 103
Signs of Renewal in Painting by Roger Allard [35] 104
Quotation (Goethe) [42] 112
On Anarchy in Music by Th. v. Hartmann [43] 113
Robert Delaunay’s Methods of Composition by
E. v. Busse [48] 119
Eugen Kahler: An Obituary by Wassily Kandinsky [53] 124
Scriabin’s “Prometheus” by L. Sabaneiev [57] 127
Free Music by N. Kulbin [69] 141
On the Question of Form by Kandinsky [74] 147
Quotation (from W. Rosanov’s Italian Impressions) [101] 187
On Stage Composition by Kandinsky [103] 190
The Yellow Sound: A Stage Composition
by Kandinsky [115] 207
27S547
Appendix
Documents: Facsimiles and Translations 241
Notes on the Contributors 261
Notes on the Illustrations 267
Notes on the Musical Compositions 282
Selected Bibliography by Bernard Karpel 283
Index of Names 293