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Paul Klee´s Pictorial Writing
K. Porter Aichele
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Description for Paul Klee´s Pictorial Writing
hardcover. Paul Klee's Pictorial Writing examines how linguistic symbols function in Klee's work and what they mean. Num Pages: 268 pages, 94 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACB; AFC; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 640.
Paul Klee's Pictorial Writing examines the artist's appropriation of verbal signs, literary texts and written scripts in his pictorial works. K. Porter Aichele's study is the first to examine how linguistic symbols function in Klee's work and what they mean. Reconstructing the artist's rich cultural milieu from his diaries, letters, lecture notes and visual allusions, Aichele shows how these sources provide the framework for fresh interpretations of works ranging from letter forms in pictorial settings to visual texts. Historically contextualized and interpreted as pictorial writing, Klee's familiar line drawings are shown to be a radical reinterpretation of the ut pictora ... Read more
Paul Klee's Pictorial Writing examines the artist's appropriation of verbal signs, literary texts and written scripts in his pictorial works. K. Porter Aichele's study is the first to examine how linguistic symbols function in Klee's work and what they mean. Reconstructing the artist's rich cultural milieu from his diaries, letters, lecture notes and visual allusions, Aichele shows how these sources provide the framework for fresh interpretations of works ranging from letter forms in pictorial settings to visual texts. Historically contextualized and interpreted as pictorial writing, Klee's familiar line drawings are shown to be a radical reinterpretation of the ut pictora ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521812351
SKU
V9780521812351
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