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Excerpts from a famous writing by Wassily Kandinsky

Introduction

• The Outer and the Inner
• Analysis
• Painting and Other Art Expressions
• Theory
• In Earlier Times
• Art History
• “Dissection”
• Two Goals
• Elements
• The Course of the Research
• Purpose of this Book

Point

• The Geometric Point
• The Written Word
• Silence
• Shock
• From Within
• Release
• First Case
• Second Case
• Further Release
• Independent Being
• Through Collision
• Concept
• Size
• At the Boundary
• Abstract Form
• Numerical Expression and Forumulae
• Form
• Basic Sound
• Absolute Concepts
• Inner Concept
• Tension
• Plane
• Definintion
• “Element” and Element
• Time
• The Point in Painting
• Time in Painting
• Number of Elements in an Art Work
• Prototype
• Concept of Composition
• Single Sound as Composition Basis
• Eccentric Structure
• Quantitative Increase
• Nature
• Other Art Epressions
• Sculpture and Architecture
• The Dance
• Music
• Graphic Art
• Techniques
• Etching
• Woodcut
• Lithography
• Atmosphere
• Root
• False Ways
• Means
• Material
• Tools and Origin of the Point
• Texture
• Abstract Art
• Force from Within
• Force from Without

Line

• Origin
• Straight Line
• Temperature
• Plane Formation
• Colour: Yellow and Blue
• Black and White
• Red
• Proto-Sound
• The Lyric and the Dramatic
• Linear Translation
• Angular Lines
• Angles
• Lengths
• Absolute Sound
• Triple Sound
• Three Sounds
• Angular Lines and Colour
• Plane and Colour
• Line and Colour
• Plane and Components
• Method
• International Art Institutes
• Complex Angular Lines
• Curved Lines
• Contrasts in Lines
• Plane
• Contrast in Relation to the Plane
• Three Pairs of Elements
• Other Arts
• Dictionary
• Planes
• Wave-like Line
• Effects
• Emphasis
• Line and Plane
• Outer Boundaries
• Combined Line
• Force
• Compisition
• Number
• Complexes of Lines
• Repetition
• Composition
• Time
• Other Arts
• Music
• The Dance
• Sculpture
• Architecture
• Poetry
• Technics
• Cunstructivism
• Nature
• Geometric and Loose Structure
• Thematic Structure
• Art and Nature
• The Graphics
• The Woodcut
• Line in Painting
• Etching
• Lithography

Basic plane

• Concept
• Pair of Lines
• The Square
• Nature of the BP
• Sounds
• Above and Below
• Above
• Below
• Right and Left
• Left
• Right
• Literary
• Distance
• Home
• Relativity
• Rest
• Formats
• Abstract Art
• Structure
• Further Tensions
• Contrasts
• Weight
• Content
• Method
• Use
• Contrast
• External Parallels
• Contrasts
• Inner Parallels
• Compisition Construction
• History of Art
• Art and Time
• Examples
• The Question of Form and Culture
• Relative Sound
• Left
• Right
• Above
• Below
• Plane upon Plane
• Relation to the Border
• The Lyric
• The Dramatic
• Increasing the Number of Sounds
• Regularity
• Further BP Forms
• Various Angles
• Circular Form
• Oval Form
• Free Form
• Texture
• Dematerialized Plane
• The Observer
• Goal of Theory

Source

Wassily Kandinsky: Point and line to Plane, Dover Publications, Inc., New York (1979)

This Dover edition, first published in 1979, is an unabridged republication of the work published by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, New York City, in 1947, in a translation by Howard Dearstyne and Hilla Rebay, edited and prefaced by Hilla Rebay. The work was originally published in 1926 as Punkt und Linie zu Flaeche, the ninth in a series of fourteen Bauhaus books edited by Walter Gropius and L. Moholy-Nagy.