Paul Klee: The Visible and the Legible

by Annie Bourneuf

Book Overview

The fact that Paul Klee (1879-1940) consistently intertwined the visual and the verbal in his art has long fascinated commentators from Walter Benjamin to Michel Foucault. However, the questions it prompts have never been satisfactorily answered--until now. In Paul Klee, Annie Bourneuf offers the first full account of the interplay between the visible and the legible in Klee's works from the 1910s and 1920s.

Bourneuf argues that Klee...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022609118X
• ISBN13: 9780226091181
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 9.5"