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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Swiss-born artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) created some of the most innovative and best-loved works of the twentieth century. He combined the machine aesthetic of modernism with lyrical, organic elements, arriving at a visual language entirely his own. Although he moved freely between media and from figuration to abstraction, Klee's works remain instantly recognisable, often characterised by a playfulness and wit that can sharpen to biting satire on...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This book illustrates how Paul Klee's critical and ironic take on life was evident in every stage of his career. It argues that Klee's style emerged from a philosophical school that originated with early German Romanticism and consisted of perpetual shifts between satire and affirmation of the absolute, finite and infinite, and real and ideal.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Paul Klee (1879?1940) is one of the most influential painters of European modernism. With an oeuvre comprising nearly ten thousand works, numerous solo and group exhibitions of his work have been mounted well beyond his lifetime. To this very day, the intense interest in his work has not waned. And yet there has never been an exhibition that has extensively examined Klee?s relationship to abstraction. The show at the Fondation Beyeler?along with the...
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