From the Book - Regular Print - First American edition.
1866-1899 Professor of law or artist? --
Discovery of reality 10 --
A change of direction 16 --
A "parallel" reality 18 --
1900-1907 The lure of art --
Sketch for Achtyrka 26 --
Early experimentation 28 --
Birth of the avant-garde 30 --
1908-1914 The genius period --
Towards the abstract 36 --
Landscape with Tower 40 --
Art as a spiritual value 42 --
Philosophy of the "vital impulse" 48 --
From city to metropolis 50 --
Final years in Munich 52 --
Between spiritualism and abstraction 54 --
1914: the outbreak of war 56 --
Picture with Red Spot 58 --
1915-1921 Return to Moscow --
Power to the people 64 --
Painting on Light Ground 66 --
Political turbulence 70 --
Institutional opposition 74 --
1922-1925 The Bauhaus in Weimar --
A decade of invention 82 --
A revolution in art education 86 --
One masterpiece after another 92 --
Innovations in design 94 --
1926-1932 The Bauhaus in Dessau --
"Point and Line to Plane" 98 --
Kandinsky and Klee 104 --
Changes at the Bauhaus 108 --
Dawn of Surrealism 110 --
1933-1944 The Paris years --
Developments in abstraction 118 --
Malaise of an epoch 124 --
Bridges to the future 128 --