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Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky : friends in exile : a decade of correspondence, 1929-1940 / Nicholas Fox Weber, Jessica Boissel

This volume collects the correspondence between two prominent Bauhaus artists from 1929 to 1940. The letters document their friendship and experiences as emigres in Paris and the United States against a backdrop of significant political upheaval.

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