Paul Klee: Legends of the Sign (INTERPRETATIONS IN ART)
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Paul Klee: Legends of the Sign (INTERPRETATIONS IN ART) Details
Two art historians present separate essays interpreting the work of Swiss painter Klee (1879-1940) in terms of language patterns and his image of the book. Emphasizes the circumstances and consequences of his break with traditional painting. Includes five color plates. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Reviews
The first analysis of Klee to deal historically and critically with the artist's sign language. Born in Switzerland a generation after Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, Klee was interested in the nature of visual and linguistic signification, and his theories are remarkably prescient to structuralist and post-structuralist theory. The two essays that make up this book, and a useful introduction, shed a powerful light on verbal-visual relations in Klee, as well as on wider problems of meaning in twentieth century art.