"Point and Line to Plane" can be seen as a continuation of Wassily Kandinsky's seminal treatise "On the Spiritual in Art". Kandinsky's thesis is that different constellations of point, line and surface have different emotional effects on the viewer....

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His "Sounds" ("Klänge") of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist's book. Its "sound poe...