Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (1979/1996)

“Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson’s significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to grow. In addition to a new introduction by Jack Flam, The Collected Writings includes previously unpublished essays by Smithson and gathers hard-to-find articles, interviews, and photographs. Together these provide a full picture of his wide-ranging views on art and culture.”

First published as The Writings of Robert Smithson, New York University Press, 1979.

Revised and Expanded edition
Edited, with an Introduction by Jack Flam
Publisher University of California Press, 1996
ISBN 0520203852, 9780520203853
385 pages
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Johannes Itten: The Art of Color (1961-) [EN, FR, SC, ES, HU, RU]

First published in German as Kunst der Farbe: Studienausgabe by Johannes Itten, Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg, 1961.

The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color
Translated by Ernst van Hagen
Publisher Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1961
Reprint John Wiley & Sons, 1974
ISBN 0471289280
155 pages
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The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book The Art of Color
A simplified and condensed version of The Art of Color
Edited and With a Foreword and Evaluation by Faber Birren
Translated by Ernst van Hagen
Publisher Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1970
ISBN 0442240384
95 pages

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The Art of Color (English, trans. Ernst van Hagen, 1961/1974, no images, MOBI, 6 MB)
The Elements of Color (English, trans. Ernst van Hagen, 1970, no OCR)
Art de la couleur (French, trans. Sylvie Girard, 1971, 44 MB, added on 2015-9-5)
Umetnost boje: subjektivni doživljaj i objektivna spoznaja (Serbo-Croatian, trans. Emilija Pavković and Vencislav Radovanović, 1973, 26 MB, added on 2015-9-5)
El arte del color (Spanish, trans. Vidal Lamíquiz, 1975, 5 MB)
A színek művészete (Hungarian, trans. Karátson Gábor, 1978/1997, 52 MB, added on 2015-9-5)
Iskusstvo tsveta (Russian, 2000, 75 MB, added on 2015-9-5)

Paul Klee: On Modern Art (1945–) [DE, EN, TR]

“Paul Klee’s short treatise on modern art was prepared as the basis for a lecture which he delivered at the opening of an exhibition at the Museum in Jena on 26 January 1924. Some of his own work was included in this exhibition. He had already at the time been teaching for four years at the Bauhaus, and these notes are the product of his deep meditation upon the problems of art which the task of teaching had brought to a head. In my own opinion they constitute the most profound and illuminating statement of the aesthetic basis of the modern movement in art ever made by a practising artist. Other artists–Matisse, Picasso, Moore–have given brilliant explanations of their aims, subtle revelations of their methods and meaning. But Klee is unique in the logical consistency of his exposition. He was of a metaphysical cast of mind and widely read in philosophy and science, and proficient in still another art than his own–in music. All this gave him a wide range of reference and illustration.” (from the Introduction)

Publisher Bern-Bümpliz, Benteli, 1945
53 pages

English edition
With an Introduction by Herbert Read
Translated by Paul Findlay
Publisher Faber and Faber, London, 1948
56 pages

Über die moderne Kunst (German, 1945, 56 MB, no OCR, added on 2015-2-4, via DNB)
On Modern Art (English, trans. Paul Findlay, 1948, no OCR)
Modern Sanat Üzerine (Turkish, trans. Rahmi G. Öğdül, 1995/2007)