Paul Klee : irony at work

Klee, Paul, 1879-1940, artist.

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This book illustrates how Paul Klees critical and ironic take on life was evident in every stage of his career. It argues that Klees 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.

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ISBN:

9783791355436

Description:

308 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Irony at work

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Paul Klee, Irony at Work, held at Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Galerie 2, April 6-August 1, 2016
Includes bibliographical references (page 290-299)

Contents:

Satirical beginnings
The art of negation : Paul Klee's satirical beginnings / Gregor Wedekind
Klee and Cubism
Cubism and the creative act of dissection in Paul Klee / Osamu Okuda
Mechanical theatre
Paul Klee : from Dada to Surrealism / Michael Baumgartner
Klee and Construcitivisms
In equilibrium : Paul Klee at the Bauhaus / Cathrin Klings{uml}ohr-Leroy
Klee's parodic genres / Charles W. Haxthausen
Looking back
The substance of time / R{acute}emi Labrusse
Klee and Picasso
"Scepticism about the bull" : Paul Klee's artistic dialogue with Pablo Picasso / Christine Hopfengart
The crisis years
"The moment has come" : Paul Klee and the experience of history / Maria Stavrinaki
Grey points : Paul Klee in the introspections of philosophy / Marcella Lista
Chronology / Marie Merio
Bibliography / compiled by Elisabeth Jobin
List of works and documents exhibited

Control Number:

2103257

Other Authors:

Klee, Paul, 1879-1940. Works. Selections (2016)
Lampe, Angela, editor
Musée national d'art moderne (France), host institution

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