Paul Klee
Subtitle: philosophical vision, from nature to art
By: edited by John Sallis
Contributors: Sallis, John, 1938-; McMullen Museum of Art
Publisher: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chesnut Hill, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781892850195
Subjects: Exhibitions; Themes, motives; Nature in art
Description: "Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision, From Nature to Art is the first exhibition and catalogue to focus on the relationship between philosophy and Klee's prolific artistic oeuvre, and to reveal the broad impact the artist has hadon recent philosophical thought. The catalogue demonstrates how Klee's groundbreaking theories-of nature, words, and music as developed in his writings and lectures-are translated into form, line, and color in his works of art. Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision includes essays contributed by fifteen distinguished philosophers and art historians. It features color reproductions of each work in the exhibition as well as a new translation of Klee's famous lecture, ''On Modern Art.''" -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, Mass., Sept. 1-Dec. 9, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Director's Preface / Nancy Netzer; title: Introduction / John Sallis; title: On Modern Art / Paul Klee; title: Klee's Philosophical Vision / John Sallis; title: Paul Klee's Vision of an Originary Cosmological Painting / Alejandro Arturo Vallega; title: Paul Klee: Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Tree / Claudia Baracchi; title: Klee and Novalis: Apprentices at Saïs / David Farrell Krell; title: Paul Klee and the Writing of Life / Dennis J. Schmidt; title: "Abstract with Memories": Klee's "Auratic" Pictures / Charles W. Haxthausen; title: Framing Klee's Window / María del Rosario Acosta; title: Metamorphosis and Music: Klee and Merleau-Ponty / Galen A. Johnson; title: Pictorial Spaces: The Art of Paul Klee / Günter Figal; title: Paul Klee and Language / Claude Cernuschi; title: A Polyphonic Painting: Paul Klee and Rhythm / Eliane Escoubas; title: The Poetics of the Sketch / Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; title: The Look from Beyond: On Paul Klee's View of Art/ Damir Barbarić; title: Paul Klee and the Unseen World: Ghosts, Somnambulists, and Witches / Jeffery Howe; title: The Sublime Continuum Klee's Cosmic Simultaneities / Stephen H. Watson; title: Plates; title: Index; title: Contributors.