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Sate University of New York Press, Albany
The artist Paul Klee once said that art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible. In 'Klees Mirror' John Sallis examines the various ways in which Klees art makes visible things that ordinarily go unseen. He shows how Klees art is like a...
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The artist Paul Klee once said that art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible. In 'Klees Mirror' John Sallis examines the various ways in which Klees art makes visible things that ordinarily go unseen. He shows how Klees art is like a mirror capable of reflecting not only the surface appearance of things, but also their hidden depth and the cosmic setting to which they belong. Tracing the relation of Klees paintings and drawings to music, poetry, and philosophy, Sallis also takes account of Klees own extensive writings, both theoretical and autobiographical, and of the incisive lectures that he presented while teaching at the Bauhaus. Featuring large, high-quality reproductions, 'Klees Mirror' shows how the painters theories both are exemplified in his art and, in turn, are enhanced and extended by what his art achieves and reveals
Artspan -- Reticence and polyphony -- True to nature -- Making visible -- Light -- Line to color -- Bordering on philosophy -- The truth of Klee's mirror -- Phantastical -- Writing and the language of painting -- Musicality -- Freeing the line -- Time of death
