The fact that Paul Klee (1879ndash;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 answeredmdash;until now. In Paul Klee; Annie Bourneuf offers the first full account of the interplay between the visible and the legible in Kleersquo;s works from the 1910s and 1920s.Bourneuf argues that Klee joined these elements to invite a manner of viewing that would unfold in time; a process analogous to reading. From his elaborate titles to the small scale he favored to his metaphoric play with materials; Klee created forms that hover between the pictorial and the written. Through his unique approach; he subverted forms of modernist painting that were generally seen to threaten slow; contemplative viewing. Tracing the fraught relations among seeing; reading; and imagining in the early twentieth century; Bourneuf shows how Klee reconceptualized abstraction at a key moment in its development.
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