http://www.metafilter.com/tags/kandinsky Posts tagged with 'kandinsky' at MetaFilter. Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:03:21 -0800 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:03:21 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/67432/Momas%2DCollection%2Dof%2DIllustrated%2DBooks <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ACL%3AI%3A5&amp;page_number=1&amp;template_id=6&amp;sort_order=1">MOMA has around 400 images from its collection of illustrated books</a> available online. It's heavy on the works of the early 20th Century European avant-garde, especially the Russian Futurists, though it extends into the present day. Here are a few of the images that I liked: <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ACL%3AI%3A5&page_number=94&template_id=1&sort_order=1">Aleksei Krucenykh and Kirill Zdanevich</a>, <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ACL%3AI%3A5&page_number=116&template_id=1&sort_order=1">Vladimir Mayakovsky</a>, <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_secondary_images.php?criteria=O%3AOD%3AE%3A31450&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1&sec_img=3">Filippo Tommaso Marinetti</a>, <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A5066&page_number=24&template_id=1&sort_order=1">Olga Rozanova</a>, <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A23495&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1">Ekaterina Turova</a>, <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ACL%3AI%3A5&page_number=128&template_id=1&sort_order=1">El Lissitzky</a>, <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ACL%3AI%3A5&page_number=266&template_id=1&sort_order=1">Max Ernst</a>, <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ACL%3AI%3A5&page_number=410&template_id=1&sort_order=1">Raymond Pettibon</a>, <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ACL%3AI%3A5&page_number=6&template_id=1&sort_order=1">Vasily Kandinsky</a> and <a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ACL%3AI%3A5&page_number=19&template_id=1&sort_order=1">Natalia Goncharova</a>. As a bonus here's El Lissitzky's lovely children's book, <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/el/pro.html">About 2 Squares</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.67432 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:03:21 -0800 art avant-garde EkaterinaTurova ElLissitzky Futurism Futurists illustratedbooks Kandinsky Krucenykh literature Marinetti MaxErnst Mayakovsky NataliaGoncharova OlgaRozanova Pettibon RussianFuturists Zdanevich Kattullus http://www.metafilter.com/23143/Torture%2Dby%2DArt <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,883075,00.html">Torture by Art.</a> 'Bauhaus artists such as Kandinsky, Klee and Itten, as well as the surrealist film-maker Luis Bunuel and his friend Salvador Dali, were said to be the inspiration behind a series of secret cells and torture centres built in Barcelona and elsewhere '. Maybe there is a future for those Turner Prize winners after all. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.23143 Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:54:36 -0800 art bauhaus bunuel dali itten kandinsky klee torture rolo