Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary phenomena of modern European art. These abilities have left their record in the four intimate Diaries in which he faithfully recorded the events of his inner and outer life from his nineteenth to his fortieth year. Here, together with recollections of his childhood in Bern, his relations with his family and such friends as Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, and many others, his observations on nature and people, his trips to Italy and Tunisia, and his military service, the reader will find Klee's crucial experience with literature and music, as well as many of his essential ideas about his own artistic technique and the creative process.

The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Arts & Photography

PAUL KLEE

Felix Klee (editor)

History & Criticism

University of California Press

"One of the most famous of modern art documents - a poetic primer, prepared by the artist for his Bauhaus pupils, which has deeply affected modern thinking about art...This little handbook leads us into the mysterious world where science and imagination fuse." "The Observer"

Pedagogical Sketchbook

Faber&Faber

Paul Klee (Great art of the ages)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

H.N. Abrams

First digital edition of this classic of art and philosophy, now in a searchable format. 'The writings which compose Paul Klee's theory of form production and pictorial form have the same importance and the same meaning for modern art as had Leonardo's writings which composed his theory of painting for Renaissance art. Like the latter, they do not constitute a true and proper treatise, that is to say a collection of stylistic and technical rules, but are the result of an introspective analysis which the artist engages in during his work and in the light of the experience of reality which comes to him in the course of his work. This analysis which accompanies and controls the formation of a work of art is a necessary component of the artistic process, the aim and the finality of which are brought to light by it . . .' So writes Giulio Carlo Argan in his Preface to this first volume of Klee's notebooks. The backbone of his Bauhaus courses was provided by the lecture notes contained in 'Contributions to a Theory of Pictorial Form' which are here published in their entirety. From more than 2,500 pages of the notebooks (consisting of memoranda, teaching projects, constructive drawings, and sketches for his pictures) it has been possible to reconstruct additional courses of instruction. Also included are the 'Creative Credo', 'Ways of Nature Study', the Jena lecture of 1924 and the essay' Exact Experiments in the Realm of Art'. The volume includes a magnificent collection of over one thousand drawings which illustrate the notes, as well as 188 half-tone illustrations, eight of these reproduced in full color.

The Thinking Eye. The Notebooks of Paul Klee. Volume I.

Wittenborn Art Books

This second volume of Klee's notebooks follows on where volume one left off, and comprises essentially the notes and illustrations for the 'General system of pictorial media combined with nature study' on which Klee lectured at the Bauhaus in the winter of 1923/4. It overlaps with and complements the material included in volume one, but it is not limited to the lecture notes proper for the years 1923/4. Related material, problems and notes from Klee's other papers have also been included where they help to develop particular arguments. During the period at the Bauhaus covered by the two volumes, Klee was preoccupied in his teaching with the same themes, to which he returned again and again, but the emphasis differed, and in this volume the emphasis is on the study of nature as a starting point for the creative processes of the artist. The combination of facsimile pages from the artist's lecture notes and drawings and reproductions of the artist's works points up the enormously fertile dialogue between the didactic and introspective side of Klee's career and his own creative output. In addition to the wealth of formal examples reproduced, the volume includes 243 reproductions of the artist's works, fifteen of them in full color- making a total of over 600 illustrations. A unique and immensely valuable feature of the English language edition is the bibliography by Bernard Karpel of the Museum of Modern Art, New York which has been specially commissioned for this volume. It contains 629 entries of writings by and about the artist.

Paul Klee. The Notebooks of Paul Klee. Volume 2. The nature of nature.

Drawings of Paul Klee

Bordon Pub.

Paul Klee Notebooks: The Thinking Eye/the Nature of Nature/Volumes I & Ii/Boxed Set

Individual Artists

Overlook Pr

The Paul Klee Notebooks: The Nature of Nature: 002

Jurg Spiller

Paul Klee, 1879-1940: [catalogue of an exhibition], September-October 1975

Fischer Fine Art Ltd

Paul Klee : Norton Simon Museum

Sara Campbell Abdo

Norton Simon Museum

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