Author: Scholz, Dieter (and) Christina Thomson (and) Olivier Berggruen
Title: The Klee Universe
Description: Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2008. Hardcover. A red casebound book with the title in black down the spine. There is a dust jacket with the title in red down a black spine. Pages: (5), 6-367, (1). Contains 377 illustrations, with 299 in color. "There are artists whose métier is the observation or documentation of the world, and artists who set the world aside altogether to build their own visionary cosmology, designing its constituent parts from scratch as a personal mythology relayed in motifs. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was such an artist, as his aphorism "Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible" testifies, and The Klee Universe addresses his work from this perspective. In 1906, Klee noted in his diary, "All will be Klee," and in 1911, as the encyclopedist of his cosmos, he began to meticulously chronicle his works in a catalogue that, by the time he died, was to contain more than 9,000 items. Here, in the fashion of an Orbis Pictus or a Renaissance emblem book, Klee's oeuvre is made legible as a cogent entirety, in thematic units address: the human life cycle, from birth and childhood to sexual desire, parenthood and death; music, architecture, theater and religion; plants, animals and landscapes; and, finally, darker, destructive forces in the shape of war, fear and death. The Klee Universe reimagines the artist as a Renaissance man, an artist of great learning whose cosmos proves to be a coherent system of ideas and images." Contents are as follows: The Klee Universe: Foreword / Peter-Klaus Schuster -- Greeting / Christina Weiss -- Greeting / Wulf H. Bernotat -- Essays -- The World as Fragment: Building Blocks of the Klee Universe / Peter-Klaus Schuster -- Klee's Orientational Artists / Otto Karl Werckmeister -- "Berlin Has It All" Paul Klee, Berlin, and the Nationalgalerie / Dieter Scholz -- The Magician as Artist of Quotas: Paul Klee and His Rise as a Modernist Classic / Christine Hopfengart -- Some Notes on Paul Klee and Heinz Berggruen / Olivier Berggruen -- Catalogue -- Prologue -- Childhood -- Eros -- Women -- Men -- Travels -- Theater -- Animals -- Nature -- Music -- Architecture -- The Bauhaus -- Lettering -- Religion -- War -- Melancholy -- Appendix -- Biography Anke Daemgen -- Exhibition List -- Selected Bibliography -- Photo Credits. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp, sticker, and due date card on back free end page. Stamp on top text block. Sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine.

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