Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider

Magdalena Dabrowski, Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), Scala Publishers, Joan Rosenbaum — 2003

The intellectual dialogue and friendship between two key modernist artists - the painter Wassily Kandinsky and the composer Arnold Schoenberg - forms the focal point of this fascinating survey, charting the early 20th century parallel movements towards abstraction in art and atonality in music.