Crescent moon over the rational
Subtitle: philosophical interpretations of Paul Klee
By: Stephen H. Watson.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804761253
Subjects: Klee, Paul, -- 1879-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation; Klee, Paul, -- 1879-1940 -- Influence; Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century; Art criticism -- History -- 20th century; Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century; Art and philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Interpreting Klee : fusing the architectonic and the poetic; title: On the withdrawal of the beautiful : Adorno's and Merleau-Ponty's readings of Klee; title: Gadamer, Benjamin, aesthetic modernism, and the rehabilitation of allegory : the relevance of Klee; title: Of Sartre, Klee, surrealism, and philosophy : toward a "nonprosaic" conception of consciousness; title: Heidegger, Klee's turn, and the origin of the work of art; title: "Fiscourse/digure" : of nomadism, the specter of Oedipus, and the remnants of the sublime; title: The rapture of sensuousness : color possesses me, I am a painter.