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Book SynopsisPaul Klee consistently intertwined the visual and the verbal in his art has long fascinated commentators, including such illustrious figures as Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault. This book offers an account of the interplay between the visible and the legible in Klee's works from the 1910s and 1920s.
Trade Review"By far the historically most thorough and perceptive investigation of the role of reading and writing in Klee's work, this study is an excellent contribution to Klee scholarship and certainly the best book on him available today. Bourneuf introduces a significant number of little-known passages from Klee's own writings or early criticism into the discussion, and her interpretations of individual works are masterfully crafted." -Ralph Ubl, University of Basel "Klee continues to fascinate us as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, but we are also drawn to his activities as a teacher, theorist, and writer. Bourneuf has provided a wonderfully provocative and nuanced reading that highlights the sometimes ambiguous and even ambivalent tension that arose for Klee at the intersection of these activities. This is a sophisticated work that contributes to the scholarship on Klee, the history of abstraction, and the historiography of Modernism as well as the critical issues that frame image making/writing and reading/seeing." -Anna Sigridur Arnar, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Klee's Sequential Numbering System Introduction 1 The "Painter-Draftsman" 2 Seeing and Speculating 3 A Refuge for Script Epilogue: Old Sound Notes Index
