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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The story of Paul Klee’s hand puppets began with his son Felix’s wish to own Kasperl (Punch and Judyl figures like the ones he had seen at a Munich flea market. From 1916 to 1925 a total of fifty figures were created of which thirty still exist today. In creating the puppets Klee used a large variety of materials from his studio and around his home: beef bones and electrical sockets bristle brushes and nut shells He sewed the garments together from left-over fabric and discarded clothes. At the beginning Klee based the puppets on the popular Kasperl theater; later he invented his own fantastical characters. Some of them contain allusions to Klee’s artist colleagues at the Bauhaus others trace back to earlier representations from the theater. Some of the puppets are reflections upon topics related to politics or society as for example in the case of the Deutschnationaler which zeroes in on the ultra-conservatives of the Weimar Republic or the Specter of the Socket which alludes to the rapid increase in the use of electricity. In designing his puppets Klee played with the styles of his time. (SP)