Paul Klee Books

Creative Confession brings together three short critical texts written by Paul Klee (1879–1940), one of the most distinctive artists of the early 20th century. Reflective and often lyrical, the essays exemplify Klee’s artistic thinking and his relationship with the creative process. Titled “Graphic Art” (published as “Creative Confession,” 1920), “Ways of Nature Study” (1923), and “Exact Experiments in the Realm of Art” (1928), the texts arch into each other through common and over­lapping concerns. The goal of these writings was to draw a wider public into a dialogue that Klee was already having with the world around him through his art. He said, “Art does not reproduce what is visible, instead it makes it visible,” and thus he talks readers through his own creative confessions. This compact new edition includes a postscript by Tate curator Matthew Gale.

About the life of Paul Klee and his paintings. The author writes in much greater detail about the years up to and including the first world war. Pictures of his paintings and notes will complement his (Klee's) work. Several of Klee's quotations are included.

Swiss-born Paul Klee was a painter and graphic artist whose personal, often gently humorous works are full of illusions to dreams, music and poetry. He lived in exile in his own chosen homeland in Switzerland.

Die einzigartigen Werke des Malerphilosophen sind in diesem farbenprächtigen Band fesselnd kommentiert. Analytische Formen und leuchtende Farben: Paul Klee legte in seinen Bildern Wert auf die Komposition der gestalterischen Mittel; dem Betrachter jedoch überlässt er es, die menschlichen Hintergründe seiner Bilder zu interpretieren. Der vorliegende Band liefert eine prägnante Charakterisierung dieses einzigartigen Malers und Philosophen.

All the world's an Xbox and you're a playerCandide is an optimist. A dreamer. He believes that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. But that belief is about to be tested as Candide's comfortable life is overtaken by an endless barrage of misfortune.First published in 1759, the story traces the journey of a young man who leads a sheltered life, believing that mankind lives in the best of all possible worlds and that everything happens for the best. But Candide's happiness comes to a sharp end when he is unfairly evicted from his uncle's castle for kissing his cousin and true love, Lady Cunégonde. Cast out into the big wide world, Candide is forced to confront reality.As his world collapses around him, we are transported across the centuries to new locations and parallel universes. How will Candide's optimism fare when it collides with life in the twenty-first century?

Eine Art von Stille leuchtet – wer diese Zeile formuliert hat, wusste wovon er spricht. Paul Klee war selbst ein eher stiller und nachdenklicher Mensch. Aber er schuf Bilder, die ihre Betrachter mit einfachen Formen, sinnlichen Farben und poetisch-fantasievollen Kompositionen berühren und bezaubern. Sie sind dem Geheimnis aller Wirklichkeit auf der Spur und elementar spirituell. Was liegt da näher, als sich von einigen der schönsten Bilder dieses faszinierenden Künstlers inspirieren zu lassen, um überraschende Entdeckungen zu machen und für das eigene Leben frische, unverbrauchte Energie zu gewinnen.

Kleeova esej „O moderním umění“ související s umělcovou tvorbou je doplněna ukázkami z deníků, v kterých autor definuje sám sebe. Pro edici De arte byla vybrána malá část z deníků, které obsahují celkem 1134 záznamů. Záznamy z let 1880-1895 (Vzpomínky na dětství, záznamy z let 1897-1898 (Gymnazista) a z let 1898-1901 (Mnichov) obsahují vzpomínky na první dětské vjemy. Ukázky z Deníků III. (1903-1916) zachycují pocity z úspěchu prvních výstav a výpověď o pocitech z vlastní tvůrčí práce. Doslov Kleeova syna Felixe, z původního vydání deníků, je uveden na začátku výboru s názvem Vzpomínky na otce.