PAUL KLEE AD PARNASSUM

In this book, art historian Oskar Bätschmann explores Klees seminal painting Ad Parnassum (1932). Painted shortly after the artist s departure from the Bauhaus, it symbolizes a new era, also one of Klees own self-discovery. Bätschmann documents how the artist st rove for a connection of music and painting in his color hues and in the rhythmic movement of colored dots.Richly illustrated, this book places Klees polyphonic understanding of art in an art-historical context by using this key work and offers insight into the s ynesthetic th...[Read more]