Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus Years, 1915-1933 Book

	Introduction	7
	Acknowledgments	9
I	Russia
1	Russian art toward the end of the nineteenth century	13
2	A cultivated family: Kandinsky's childhood	20
3	Student days	27
4	The first oil painting	39
II	Munich
1	"Now or never"	51
2	Brief studies with Azbe and Stuck	59
3	Lessons from nature: the early landscapes	64
4	The Phalanx	79
5	The past as artistic inspiration	84
6	Graphic work	96
7	Gabriele Munter and other women	104
8	Murnau	110
9	The New Artists' Association	130
III	Change of Instruments
1	The poems	139
2	Kandinsky and the theater	143
3	The synthesis of the arts	152
IV	Period of Creative Genius
1	Nature and art are two discrete realms	159
2	On the "spiritual"	172
3	The first abstract oil painting	181
4	Influences, stimuli, mood of the times	190
5	The "Blaue Reiter"	197
6	Self-images	202
7	Kandinsky and politics	220
V	Moscow 1915-1921
1	A difficult fresh start	229
2	Change of style	240
3	Action	256
VI	The Bauhaus Years
1	Third fresh start	265
2	The geometry of forms	277
3	The debate on abstraction	294
4	A theater project	303
5	"Degenerate" art	308
VII	Paris
1	The last move	321
2	Biomorphous style	332
3	Theory and practice	348
4	Nature and art are not two discrete realms	355
	The mystery of the last works	375
	Developments in research	385
	Biographical Summary	391
	What Kandinsky's Contemporaries Have to Say	397
	Notes	401
	Bibliography	413
	Index of Names	426
	Index of Kandinsky's Works	429
	Photo Credits	431