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| In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael Baumgartner, Arnfinn B0-rygg, Richard Hoppe-sailer, Ole-henrik Moe, Osamu Okuda, Paul Klee
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 663989
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 3775721010
Dewey Decimal Number: 704
EAN: 9783775721011
ASIN: 3775721010
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
Release Date: August 1, 2008
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Product Description
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism and found nature an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Much of his oeuvre depicts gardens and parks--from real locations such as the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz in Germany or the Tunisian Hammamet to fantastic, fragmentary vegetal abstractions. An amateur naturalist, Klee would often collect flowers and leaves on walks, to later identify and store in an herbarium. With more than 200 color illustrations, this publication explores the spiritual, scientific and aesthetic manifestations of Klee's engagement with nature, revealing a complex approach, by turns coolly analytical and completely subjective.
Born in 1879, Paul Klee belonged to the Munich-based proto-Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), which was active from 1911-1914. Members sought to express spiritual truths in their work, which--radically for the time--moved progressively towards complete abstraction.
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Making the invisible visible September 27, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is the catalogue for a recent exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland, centered on the artist's fascination with botanic. It is full of high-quality illustrations of paintings, drawings and prints, most of them drawn from the Zentrum's own holdings, but also from some private collections.
The text is divided into five chapters, the first, strictly chronological,shows that plants were a lifelong theme in Klee's works, the second studies Klee's dialogue with nature, the third is a very interesting comparison between Klee's theories and ideas on nature and those of the XVIIIth century Swedish scientist Carl Von Linne, the "father of taxonomy" (who, as a widely travelled scholar, endeavoured to register and describe the outer appearance of all living forms), the fourth chapter dwells on a series of 1939 drawings that Klee called "Inferner Park" to study his interest on motion, on becoming, on genesis, on growth, and the fifth and last is an overlook on the most important philosophical writings on Klee's art (by Heidegger,Deleuze, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, etc).
A very interesting book, full of beautiful reproductions enhanced by a text that sheds new light and opens new fields of study on the work of one of the greatest painters of the XXth century.
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