Overview

"Marcel Franciscono offers an exhaustive historical and critical study of Klee's artistic personality and thought. Drawing extensively on documentation published since 1940, Franciscono highlights the extraordinary range of artistic, literary, and philosophical speculation Klee brought to his work. The portrait that emerges is one of a great comic artist, an ironist whose most characteristic pictures pit beauty of form and color against the dubious nature of things, yet one whose satiric depictions of everyday life extend to the most rarified evocations of nature. ""There is no comparable book in the recent Klee literature. Marcel Franciscono introduces the reader to the artist and, in turn, to all the major Klee problems uncovered by specialists working in one or another area of the master's work. The result is a rich symposium in which all these opinions, as well as the relevant biographical facts, are returned to individual works of art, illuminating them exquisitely. In this low-keyed fashion emerges the splendid general study that is required of every generation for a great artist.""--Daniel Robbins, Union College"

Full Product Details

Author:   Marcel Franciscono
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Edition:   2nd ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.925kg
ISBN:  

9780226259901

ISBN 10:   0226259900
Pages:   406
Publication Date:   21 May 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

"Preface Introduction 1. Klee at the Turn of the Century Landscapes and Caricature Early Satires Klee's Early Artistic Principles The Etched Inventions 2. The Making of a Modern Artist Rodin and the Works of 1904-7 The Search for Individuality Klee and Impressionism Klee's Discovery of the Post-Impressionists The Relationship of Art and Nature Cézanne and the Pictures The Candide Illustrations 3. Klee's Encounter with Cubism and the Blaue Reiter The First Approaches to Cubism The Influence of the Blaue Reiter in 1912 Klee's 1913 Cubist Compositions Klee's Relationship to Kandinsky and Marc 4. Klee's Symbolic Language Klee and Abstraction 5. The War Years and Their Aftermath Klee's Response to the War Klee and the Dada Movement Klee during the November Revolution 6. The Bauhaus and Düsseldorf Klee's Theory Courses The Work of the Bauhaus Years Departure from the Bauhaus Klee's Work in 1933 7. Klee's Return to Bern: The Late Work The Late Work and Contemporary Art The Images of Death Der Inferner Park Appendix A: Klee's Tunisian Watercolors Appendix B: Klee's Supposed ""Anti-Nazi"" Drawings Notes Bibliography Index"

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There is no comparable book in the recent Klee literature. Marcel Franciscono introduces the reader to the artist and, in turn, to all the major Klee problems uncovered by specialists working in one or another area of the master's work. The result is a rich symposium in which all these opinions, as well as the relevant biographical facts, are returned to individual works of art, illuminating them exquisitely. In this low-keyed fashion emerges the splendid general study that is required of every generation for a great artist.-- Daniel Robbins, Union College

"""There is no comparable book in the recent Klee literature. Marcel Franciscono introduces the reader to the artist and, in turn, to all the major Klee problems uncovered by specialists working in one or another area of the master's work. The result is a rich symposium in which all these opinions, as well as the relevant biographical facts, are returned to individual works of art, illuminating them exquisitely. In this low-keyed fashion emerges the splendid general study that is required of every generation for a great artist."" * Daniel Robbins, Union College *"

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