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Paul Klee

The Visible and the Legible
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The fact that Paul Klee (1879–1940) consistently intertwined the visual and the verbal in his art has long fascinated commentators from Walter Benjamin to Michel Foucault. However, the questions it prompts have never been satisfactorily answered—until now. In Paul Klee, Annie Bourneuf offers the first full account of the interplay between the visible and the legible in Klee’s works from the 1910s and 1920s. Bourneuf argues that Klee joined these elements to invite a manner of viewing that would unfold in time, a process analogous to reading. From his elaborate titles to the small scale he favored to his metaphoric play with materials, Klee created forms that hover between the pictorial and the written. Through his unique approach, he subverted forms of modernist painting that were generally seen to threaten slow, contemplative viewing. Tracing the fraught relations among seeing, reading, and imagining in the early twentieth century, Bourneuf shows how Klee reconceptualized abstraction at a key moment in its development.

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Annie Bourneuf is assistant professor of art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Release date Australia
July 20th, 2015
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Pages
256
Dimensions
19x24x3
ISBN-13
9780226091181
Product ID
22822592

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