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'One of the most famous of modern art documents - a poetic primer,
prepared by the artist for his Bauhaus pupils, which has deeply
affected modern thinking about art . . . This little handbook leads
us into the mysterious world where science and imagination fuse.'
Observer
The year before he died, in what was one of the most difficult yet
prolific periods of his life, Paul Klee created his most surprising
and innovative works. In 1939, the year before his death from a
long illness and against a backdrop of sociopolitical turmoil and
the outbreak of World War II, Klee worked with a vigor and
inventiveness that rivaled even the most productive periods of his
youth. This book illuminates the artist's response to his personal
difficulties and the era's broader realities through imagery that
is tirelessly inventive-by turns political, solemn, playful,
humorous, and poetic. The works featured testify to Klee's restless
drive to experiment with form and material. His use of adhesive,
grease, oil, chalk, and watercolor, among other media, resulted in
surfaces that are not only visually striking, but also highly
tactile and original. Not unlike a diary, the drawings are often
meditative reflections on the pains and pleasures of life-their
titles, among them Monsters in readiness and Struggles with
himself, signal Klee's frame of mind. Renowned art historian Dawn
Ades looks at this group of drawings in the context of their time
and as indicative of a pivotal moment in art history. Moved by this
late period of Klee's oeuvre, American artist Richard Tuttle
responds to specific works in the form of a dialogical poem. This
stunning publication highlights the novelty and ingenuity of Klee's
late works, which deeply affected the generation of
artists-including Anni Albers, Jean Dubuffet, Mark Tobey, and Zao
Wou-Ki-that emerged after World War II and continues to captivate
artists and viewers alike today.
Published in 1966, "Paul Klee on Modern Art has an introduction by
Herbert Read.
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker's short stories The
Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary
critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his
groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including
Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories
revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold
between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance
of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling
and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin.
The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in
this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the
modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
Active at the Bauhaus between 1920 and 1931, teaching in the
bookbinding, stained glass and mural-painting workshops, Paul Klee
(1879-1940) brought his expressive blend of color and line to the
school--and, with the second volume in the Bauhausb cher series,
beyond its walls. In his legendary Pedagogical Sketchbook, Klee
presents his theoretical approach to drawing using geometric shapes
and lines. Evincing a desire to reunite artistic design and craft,
and written in a tone that oscillates between the seeming
objectivity of the diagram, the rhetoric of science and
mathematics, and an abstract, quasi-mystical intuition, Klee's text
expresses key aspects of the Bauhaus' pedagogy and guiding
philosophies. And while Klee's method is deeply personal, in the
context of the fundamentally multivocal Bauhaus, his individual
approach to abstract form is typical in its idiosyncrasy. In the
Pedagogical Sketchbook, Klee presents his own theories about the
relationships between line, form, surface, color, space and time in
art in the context of the Bauhaus. The book testifies to Klee's
intensive theoretical explorations of art and exemplifies how the
Bauhaus masters interconnected the various realms of art and
design. In the present volume, the 1953 English translation of
Pedagogical Sketchbook by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy is combined with the
design and physical qualities of the original German edition from
1925.
Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that
was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than
his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary
phenomena of modern European art. These abilities have left their
record in the four intimate Diaries in which he faithfully recorded
the events of his inner and outer life from his nineteenth to his
fortieth year. Here, together with recollections of his childhood
in Bern, his relations with his family and such friends as
Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, and many others, his observations on nature
and people, his trips to Italy and Tunisia, and his military
service, the reader will find Klee's crucial experience with
literature and music, as well as many of his essential ideas about
his own artistic technique and the creative process.
Paul Klee (1879-1940) was an extraordinary draftsman, printmaker,
teacher and theoretician with a singular style whose work greatly
impacted the development of twentieth-century art. Klee's prints
demonstrate, more fully than his works in any other medium, his
remarkable evolution from a traditionalist to one of the most
daring innovators of modern art. This limited-edition facsimile of
"The Prints of Paul Klee," originally published by The Museum of
Modern Art, New York in 1947, presents 40 of Klee's etchings and
lithographs from MoMA's collection, ranging in date from 1903 to
1931 and each printed on a separate sheet of stiff card, eight of
which are in color. Accompanied by a 40-page booklet featuring an
essay by James Thrall Soby (then Chairman of the museum's
Department of Painting and Sculpture), and a new text by Christophe
Cherix, MoMA's Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, the
prints are encased in a cloth-covered and ribbon-bound box. This
unique and luxurious portfolio is being reissued for the first time
since its original publication, and is available in a limited
edition of 2,000 numbered copies.
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Klee - Melotti (Paperback)
Paul Klee, Fausto Melotti; Edited by Guido Comis, Bettina Della Casa
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This catalog, for the first time, highlights the relationships
and affinities between Swiss-German painter Paul Klee, a leading
figure in twentieth-century art, and Fausto Melotti, an Italian
artist whose name has become increasingly well known at an
international level in recent years, by means of a surprising
dialogue between their works.
The catalog compares over seventy paintings, watercolors, and
drawings by Klee with some eighty sculptures and drawings by
Melotti. A large selection of critical essays and short writings by
contemporary artists contribute to casting light on the
relationship between these two protagonists of twentieth-century
art.
The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the
legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for
his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including
Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories
revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold
between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance
of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling
and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin.
The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in
this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the
modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
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