Paul Klee
Subtitle: irony at work
By: edited by Angela Lampe
Contributors: Musée national d'art moderne (France)
Publisher: Prestel Verlag
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9783791355436
Subjects: Exhibitions; Irony in art
Other titles: Irony at work
Description: This book illustrates how Paul Klees critical and ironic take on life was evident in every stage of his career. It argues that Klees style emerged from a philosophical school that originated with early German Romanticism and consisted of perpetual shifts between satire and affirmation of the absolute, finite and infinite, and real and ideal.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition Paul Klee, Irony at Work, held at Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Galerie 2, April 6-August 1, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (page 290-299).
Table of contents: title: Satirical beginnings; title: The art of negation : Paul Klee's satirical beginnings / Gregor Wedekind; title: Klee and Cubism; title: Cubism and the creative act of dissection in Paul Klee / Osamu Okuda; title: Mechanical theatre; title: Paul Klee : from Dada to Surrealism / Michael Baumgartner; title: Klee and Construcitivisms; title: In equilibrium : Paul Klee at the Bauhaus / Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy; title: Klee's parodic genres / Charles W. Haxthausen; title: Looking back; title: The substance of time / Rémi Labrusse; title: Klee and Picasso; title: "Scepticism about the bull" : Paul Klee's artistic dialogue with Pablo Picasso / Christine Hopfengart; title: The crisis years; title: "The moment has come" : Paul Klee and the experience of history / Maria Stavrinaki; title: Grey points : Paul Klee in the introspections of philosophy / Marcella Lista; title: Chronology / Marie Merio; title: Bibliography / compiled by Elisabeth Jobin; title: List of works and documents exhibited.