Author:
Klee, Paul, 1879-1940, artist
Imprint:New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, c2013.
Description256 p. : illustrations (mostly color) ; 26 cm.
Note:Texts by Michael Baumgartner, Anja Baumhoff, Annie Bourneuf, Flavia Frigeri, Matthew Gale and Bettina Kaufmann.
Note:"First published 2013 by order of the Tate Trustees by Tate Publishing ...London...on the ocassion of The EY Exhibition --Paul Klee: Making Visible, Tate Modern, London, 16 October 2013 - 9 March 2014" --Title page verso
Note:"Carefully ordered confusion" / Matthew Gale -- 1879-1914. An art of privacy? Wilhelm Hausenstein on Paul Klee / Annie Bourneuf ; Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich, 17 May-June 1920 / Matthew Gale -- 1915-1920. Ambitions, anxieties and attainments : Paul Klee and the Bauhaus / Anja Baumhoff ; Kronprinzenpalais, Nationalgalerie Berlin, February 1923 / Matthew Gale -- 1921-1924. Square, fish / Matthew Gale ; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 13 March-2 April 1930 / Matthew Gale -- 1925-1930. "The peaceful character of compromise" : Paul Klee's "so-called pointillism" / Flavia Frigeri ; Kunsthalle Bern, 23 February-24 March 1935 / Matthew Gale -- 1931-1935. Work processes and retrospection / Michael Baumgartner ; Kunsthaus Zurich, 16 February-25 March 1940 / Bettina Kaufmann -- 1936-1940.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p.244-245) and index.
Note:Swiss born 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 recognisabele, often characterised by a playfulness and wit that can sharpen to biting satire on occassion. This book surveys Klee's entire career, particularly his role as recordkeeper of his work and the way this influenced the way his work was then exhibited featuring his best known paintings reproduced in their full colorful complexity, the book focuses on Klee's major exhibitions during his lifetime, placing his output in the context of the period in which he lived, revealing an anxious artist who, despite his quirky lyricism, was troubled by the challenges of the modern world.
