Paul KLee

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Camden House, 2006 - 225 pages
First scholarly monograph devoted to Klee's poetry illuminates the reciprocity of poetry and painting in Klee's creative world and in early modernism.

It is no coincidence that most of the artists at the vanguard of early 20th-century modernist art were poets as well as painters. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was among them. Known today almost exclusively as a visual artist, he was alsoa poet who experimented across a range of poetic forms. In 1901, while still vacillating between a career as a painter and one as a poet, Klee predicted he would end up expressing himself through the word, "the highest form of art." This first scholarly monograph devoted to Klee's poetry proposes that he lived up to that prediction. It considers poems he identified as such and visual images that are poetic in their compositional techniques, metaphorical imagery, and linear structures. It provides selected examples of Klee's poetry along with English translations that capture the spirit and literal meaning of the German originals. It places the poems and related images within the spectrum of contemporary poetic practice, revealing that Klee matched wits with Christian Morgenstern, rose to the provocations of Kurt Schwitters, and gave new form to the Surrealists' "exquisite corpses." Paul Klee, Poet/Painter is a case study in the reciprocity of poetry and painting in early modernist practice. It introduces a little-known facet of Klee's creative activity and re-evaluates his contributions to a modernist aesthetic.

Kathryn Porter Aichele is Associate Professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

 

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The Poetic and the Pictorial
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Paul Klee ORCHS as Relative 194061
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A PoeticPersonal Idea of Landscape
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Paul Klee Landscape with Gallows 1919115 2
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Carl Blechen Gallows Hill under Storm Clouds c 1835
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Antoine Court de Gébelin Illustration from Histoire naturelle de la parole 1816
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Paul Klee View from a Window 192027
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Paul Klee A Garden for Orpheus 19263
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Paul Klee Long Hair and Soulful 1929299
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Paul Klee Illustrative Sketch from the Beiträge zur bildnerischen Formlehre
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Paul Klee Palace 1928133
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Paul Klee Stricken City 193622
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Poems in Pictorial Script
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Paul Klee Tree Nursery 192998
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Paul Klee Entry 902 from the Diaries
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Paul Klee Album Leaf 19356
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Paul Klee Park Near Lu 1938129
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Harmonizing Architectonic and Poetic Painting
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Paul Klee TwoDimensional Diagrams Illustrating Structural Rhythms in Three and FourPart Time
123
Paul Klee Mural 1924128
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Kurt Schwitters Wand 1922
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Paul Klee Cathedrals 192565
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Ernst Stadler Fahrt ueber die Coelner Rheinbruecke bei Nacht 1913
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Paul Klee River Spirit 1920233
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Joan Miró Lithograph from The Lizard with Golden Feathers 1971
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Paul Klee Park N 193515
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Paul Klee Growth Is Stirring 193878
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Paul Klee Poem in Pictorial Script 1939170
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Klee and Concrete Poetry
185
Index
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Kathryn Porter Aichele is associate professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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