Paul KLee
Author | : Kathryn Porter Aichele |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : 1571133437 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781571133434 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Contextual analogies reveal that Klee matched wits with Christian Morgenstern, rose to the provocations of Kurt Schwitters, and gave new form to the Surrealists' "exquisite corpses." By the end of his life Klee discovered his own poetic voice in alphabet drawings that read as anagrams and pictorial poems that challenge conventional distinctions between verbal and visual forms of expression." "Paul Klee, Poet/Painter is a case study in the reciprocity of poetry and painting in early modernist practice. It introduces readers to a little-known facet of Klee's creative activity and re-evaluates his contributions to a modernist aesthetic."--BOOK JACKET.