341 - Belli, Carlo. Kn. Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1935. First edition of the work that Kandinsky dubbed the “Gospel of Abstract Art”

Belli, Carlo. Kn. Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1935. First edition of the work that Kandinsky dubbed the “Gospel of Abstract Art” Belli, Carlo. Kn. Milan, Edizioni del Milione, 1935. Octavo (201 x 135 mm); 227, [5] pages. Publisher’s paperback in red cardboard. A classic of Italian abstract art, *Kn* marks Carlo Belli’s definitive break from Futurism and brings together his reflections on the relationship between music and painting. A complex figure open to a wide range of experiences, Belli was one of the leading figures behind the Milanese gallery “Il Milione” and found in *Kn* the means to articulate a new conception of art, founded on an essentially metaphysical approach. Considered the first Italian essay dedicated to so-called abstract art, the volume affirms the autonomy of the work of art from any reference to reality and from any purpose foreign to its very nature. First edition of the work *Kandinsky*, hailed as the “Gospel of abstract art”