Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good bright condition. Plates bright. No notes or highlighting. Dustcover worn and marked. Some dustmarking on top of book. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> volume one left off and comprises essentially the notes and illustrations for the ‘General system of pictorial media combined with nature study’ on which Klee lectured at the Bauhaus in the winter of 1923/4. It overlaps with and complements the material included in volume one but it is not limited to the lecture notes proper for the years 1923/4. Related material problems and notes from Klee’s other papers have also been included where they help to develop particular arguments. During the period at the Bauhaus covered by the two volumes Klee was preoccupied in his teaching with the same themes to which he returned again and again but the emphasis differed and in this volume the emphasis is on the study of nature as a starting point for the creative processes of the artist. The combination of facsimile pages from the artist’s lecture notes and drawings and reproductions of the artist’s works points up the enormously fertile dialogue between the didactic and introspective side of Klee’s career and his own creative output In addition to the wealth of formal examples reproduced the volume includes 243 reproductions of the artist’s works fifteen of them in full colour-making a total of over 600 illustrations. (MP)