Writing style
Academic · Descriptive · Essayistic
Apple BooksPaul Klee
Art and design
- Print length
- 344 pagesDistributed by New York Graphic Society Books/Little, Brown, 1987
Description
This volume approaches Paul Klee through the visual language and ideas that made his work difficult to place within any single modern movement. A Swiss-born German artist and accomplished draftsman, Klee drew from expressionism, cubism, and surrealism while investigating color with unusual persistence. Music, poetry, and literature informed his search for an organic, harmonious form of painting, and his images often combine humor, shifting moods, childlike perspective, and rhythmic structure. His teaching at the Bauhaus alongside Wassily Kandinsky also led to influential lectures on form and design. The book’s central subject is therefore not merely a recognizable style, but the relationship among observation, theory, play, and musicality in Klee’s art.
Reading profile
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Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
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Pace
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Tone
Cerebral · Humorous · Playful · Reflective
Structure
Argumentative
Focus
Ideas · Information
Emotional intensity
2 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 3 / 5
- Ideas
- 4 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 2 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books/Little, Brown
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780870704031, 9780870704048
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