Initiation and initiative : an exploration of the life and ideas of Dimitrije Mitrinović

NOTES 195 Chapter 2

1. W. Grohmann, Kandinsky: Life and Work, London: Thames and Hudson, 1959, p. 37.

2. Quoted in introduction by Klaus Lankheit in W. Kandinsky and F Marc, eds., The Blaue Reiter Almanac, London: Thames and Hudson, 1974, p. 33.

3. The Diaries of Paul Klee, edited and introduced by Felix Klee, London: Peter Owen, 1965, p. 280.

4. Sir Michael Sadler, Modern Art and Revolution, London: Hogarth Press, 1932, p. 19.

5. W. Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, New York: George Wittenborn, 1947, p. 24.

6. Ibid., p. 11.

7. Ibid., p. 75.

8. Ibid., p. 74.

9. Ibid., p. 27.

10. Ibid., pp. 31-32.

11. See S. Ringbom, The Sounding Cosmos, Abo: Abo Akademi, 1970.

12. Kandinsky, op. cit., p. 27.

13. Ibid., p. 74.

14. V. Solovyov, God, Man and the Church: The Spiritual Foundations of Life (transl. by D. Attwater), Cambridge: James Clark, 1974, p. 190.

15. Ringbom, op. cit., pp. 63-4.

16. H. Le Roy Finch, introduction to The Body of God: the Collected Papers of Eric Gutkind, edited by L. B. Gutkind and H. Le Roy Finch, New York: Horizon Press, 1969, p. 14.

17. Ibid., p. 217.

18. Ibid., p. 188.

19. Letter to Kandinsky, July 19th. 1914.

20. LeRoy Finch, op. cit., p. 12.

21. Letter from Mitrinovi¢ to Gutkind, June 27th 1914.

22. Lewis Leary, “Walden goes wandering: the transit of good intention,” The New England Quarterly, pp. 3-30, vol. 32, March 1959, p. 4.

23. Ibid., p. 5.

24. Ibid., p. 12.

25. The similarities between van Eeden and his friend Upton Sinclair were striking. Both were successful authors; both had lived in international communities; both had lost substantial sums of money through financing cooperative projects; both pursued unconventional dietary habits; and both were involved in scandalous divorce suits in their respective countries. In February 1911 van Eeden wrote to Sinclair, “The other day I was pleased to see a Dutch paper mention you as ‘the American van Eeden.’” [bid., p. 27.

26. Ibid., p. 26.

27. Both essays were republished in translation in the 1930s by Mitrinovié.