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Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation: Works 1914-1940 [Hardcover]

Robert Kudielka (Author), Bridget Riley (Author)

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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers; illustrated edition edition (April 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0853318530
  • ISBN-13: 978-0853318538
  • Product Dimensions: 29.2 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 Kg
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,664,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"I cannot be pinned down here and now/ because I live as well with the dead/ as with the unborn./ Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual,/ And still not close enough." Klee's tombstone engraving speaks volumes to the way the Swiss artist lived and died, which art scholar Kudielka and artist Riley attempt to capture here. Klee (1879-1940) was a fundamentalist of sorts who spent his life tapping into and maintaining the flow of his creative source; his was a honing of skill into its barest necessity. The development of his work over the last 26 years of his life is lavishly illustrated in this volume, which clearly delineates how he extracted nonessential elements to create pure rhythm and polyphony. The authors provide a succinct discussion of Klee's later work, with interesting snippets from his writing. They manage to mirror the style and thrust of Klee himself: a great mass of information concerning the artist is distilled into essential words and pictures. Klee believed that to paint was simply to put the right color in the right place, a deceptively simple concept ably reflected here. Still, while this is a wonderfully illustrated book, it ultimately offers little new understanding of the artist. Recommended for libraries needing quality color images by Klee and larger public libraries looking to complement more challenging books on Klee by Jean-Louis Ferrier, Roland Doschka, and Carolyn Lanchner. Nadine Dalton Speidel, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OH
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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"Beautifully illustrated this book provides an intelligent insight into the creative process."
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5.0 out of 5 stars An exceptional contribution, April 8 2007
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This review is from: Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation: Works 1914-1940 (Hardcover)
This is the catalogue for an exhibition that was held at the Hayward Gallery in London a couple of years ago. It benefits from the exceptional contribution of British artist Bridget Riley, one of this rare brand of artists who do not keep their thoughts on other artists to themselves. Seldom can you get an inside view of a painter's work through another painter's eyes.
The exhibition itself was small, but with some of the best examples of Klee's paintings, coming from all over the world. The illustrations are lavish, colors are well rendered; on the whole, one of the best publications on Klee in English.
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