This work is a critical challenge to the myth of Klee's art and to the hagiography of his artistic personality.
The book offers a new, original look at the great European modernist Paul Klee and the interplay of word and image in the work he produced after WWI, when the European avant-garde was at its most adamant.
Paul Klee and the Bauhaus
... sixteen drawings that envision Dante's Inferno as The Infernal Park ( Der Inferner Park ) . ... From its classical origins the bestiary evolved into a collection of moralizing tales featuring both real and imaginary animals .
Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary phenomena of modern European art.
Klee
Marcel Franciscono offers an exhaustive historical and critical study of Klee's artistic personality and thought.
Produced in close cooperation with the Klee Foundation in Bern, this catalogue gathers together the artist's outstanding masterpieces of the years 1917 to 1933. This extraordinary survey, which includes works...
Together with his dot, Paul returns home to discover his imagination created something wonderful. The story ends with an informative artist bio and a creative prompt bringing readers full circle into their own dot inspired creation!
All aspects of Klee both as a draftsman and as a painter are illustrated in these ninety works. Paul Klee is not only one of today's most popular artists, but he is also one of the most written about.