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Providing a vivid picture of the life and work of one of the world's greatest artists, this text looks at Paul Klee and his influence upon the world of art. The book includes examples of Klee's work at various stages of his life together with a timeline. ... Read more

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It is no coincidence that most of the artists at the vanguard of early 20th-century modernist art were poets as well as painters. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was among them. Known today almost exclusively as a visual artist, he was also a poet who experimented across a range of poetic forms. In 1901, while still vacillating between a career as a painter and one as a poet, Klee predicted he would end up expressing himself through the word, "the highest form of art." This first scholarly monograph devoted to Klee's poetry proposes that he lived up to that prediction. It considers poems he identified as such and visual images that are poetic in their compositional techniques, metaphorical imagery, and linear structures. It provides selected examples of Klee's poetry along with English translations that capture the spirit and literal meaning of the German originals. It places the poems and related images within the spectrum of contemporary poetic practice, revealing that Klee matched wits with Christian Morgenstern, rose to the provocations of Kurt Schwitters, and gave new form to the Surrealists' "exquisite corpses." Paul Klee, Poet/Painter is a case study in the reciprocity of poetry and painting in early modernist practice. It introduces a little-known facet of Klee's creative activity and re-evaluates his contributions to a modernist aesthetic. ... Read more

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Swiss-born Paul Klee was a painter and graphic artist whose personal, often gently humorous works are full of illusions to dreams, music and poetry.He lived in exile in his own chosen homeland in Switzerland. ... Read more

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Solid overview of late Klee - not to be missed
This is a wonderful and illuminating book covering primarily the late works of Paul Klee, most of which were created as he was battling what would later be a fatal illness.

Klee is one of my favorite artists and I am glad to have this volume.If you love the magical, mystifying, colorful world of Paul Klee, pick up this book.Although he frequently used abstract forms, his art is always profoundly human - even humorous at times.

He stared death in the face, picked up his brush or pen, and left a legacy of color, form, feeling and even joy that will live forever in the hearts of true art lovers everywhere. ... Read more

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a wonderful coloring book, too
This slender, inexpensive book is a fine look at Klee's exquisite line (a point out for a walk). If you use it as a coloring books, you'll learn a lot about color, too.

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This study examines the function and meaning of linguistic symbols in Klee's work.Using the artist's diaries, letters, lecture notes and visual allusions, K. Porter Aichele shows how these sources provide the framework for fresh interpretations of works ranging from letter forms in pictorial settings to visual texts.Klee's familiar line drawings are revealed as a radical reinterpretation of the ul pictora poesis tradition, through which the artist questioned whether there is a substantive difference between writing and drawing. ... Read more

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Activity book for young artists. ... Read more

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GREAT
What a wonderfully clear and concise synopsis and investigation into the core aims and machinations of the modern artist's own mind...towards the "subconscious" in art. ... Read more