The Kandinsky Library (or ''Bibliothèque Kandinsky'' in French) is a library of 20th and 21st century

visual arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

located at the

Pompidou Centre The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...

in Paris, France. It also serves as the Documentation and Research Centre of the French National Museum of Modern Art (''Musée national d'art moderne / Centre de création industrielle,'' or MNAM / CCI). It is named after the

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n painter and art theorist

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in ...

, a pioneer in

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and a leading figure in early 20th century visual arts.

Collections

Created in 2002, the Kandinsky Library includes over 200,000 works (

art book Artists' books (or book arts or book objects) are works of art that engage with and transform the form of a book. Some are mass-produced with multiple editions, some are published in small editions, while others are produced as one-of-a-kind ob ...

s, art journals, photographs, audio recordings, videos, artists' archives, etc.) from about 5,000 artists, designers, and architects. A large fraction of these collections come from the former ''Centre national d'art contemporain (CNAC)''. Since the acquisition of the Paul Destribats collection in 2006,Le fonds Paul Destribats. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
/ref> the Kandinsky Library is one of the larger visual art collections in the world for the first half of the 20th century.

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Online catalog

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