Paul Klee, Poet/Painter

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-57113-343-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 236 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

First scholarly monograph devoted to Klee's poetry illuminates the reciprocity of poetry and painting in Klee's creative world and in early modernism.

It is no coincidence that most of the artists at the vanguard of early 20th-century modernist art were poets as well as painters. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was among them. Known today almost exclusively as a visual artist, he was alsoa poet who experimented across a range of poetic forms. In 1901, while still vacillating between a career as a painter and one as a poet, Klee predicted he would end up expressing himself through the word, "the highest form of art." This first scholarly monograph devoted to Klee's poetry proposes that he lived up to that prediction. It considers poems he identified as such and visual images that are poetic in their compositional techniques, metaphorical imagery, and linear structures. It provides selected examples of Klee's poetry along with English translations that capture the spirit and literal meaning of the German originals. It places the poems and related images within the spectrum of contemporary poetic practice, revealing that Klee matched wits with Christian Morgenstern, rose to the provocations of Kurt Schwitters, and gave new form to the Surrealists' "exquisite corpses." Paul Klee, Poet/Painter is a case study in the reciprocity of poetry and painting in early modernist practice. It introduces a little-known facet of Klee's creative activity and re-evaluates his contributions to a modernist aesthetic.

Kathryn Porter Aichele is Associate Professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aichele, K Porter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Expressionismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Artist [Poet/Painter]
"I Am a Poet, After All"
The Poetic and the Pictorial
A Poetic-Personal Idea of Landscape
Harmonizing Architectonic and Poetic Painting
Poems in Pictorial Script
Conclusion: Klee and Concrete Poetry
Appendix: What Counts as Poetry?
Works Cited
Index