Paul Klee. Notebooks. Volume 2: The Nature of Nature. George Wittenborn, New York, 1973
'The writings which compose Paul Klee's theory of form production and pictorial form have the same importance and the same meaning for modern art as had Leonardo's writings which composed his theory of painting for Renaissance art. Like the latter, they do not constitute a true and proper treatise, that is to say a collection of stylistic and technical rules, but are the result of an introspective analysis which the artist engages in during his work and in the light of the experience of reality which comes to him in the course of his work. This analysis which accompanies and controls the formation of a work of art is a necessary component of the artistic process, the aim and the finality of which are brought to light by it . . .' Giulio Carlo Argan in his Preface to the first volume of Klee's notebooks.
Title: Paul Klee. Notebooks. Volume 2: The Nature of Nature. Vol. 17 in the series ‘Documents of Modern Art’ edited by Robert Motherwell.
Author: Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (ed.), translated by Heinz Norden
Publisher: George Wittenborn Inc., New York
Format: Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with titles in green to spine.
Pages: 454pp.
Book Condition: Very Good. Upper spine tips bumped. Pages 146 and147 slight wavy. Dust Jacket Condition: 2 short tears to the upper spine tips. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01142
'The writings which compose Paul Klee's theory of form production and pictorial form have the same importance and the same meaning for modern art as had Leonardo's writings which composed his theory of painting for Renaissance art. Like the latter, they do not constitute a true and proper treatise, that is to say a collection of stylistic and technical rules, but are the result of an introspective analysis which the artist engages in during his work and in the light of the experience of reality which comes to him in the course of his work. This analysis which accompanies and controls the formation of a work of art is a necessary component of the artistic process, the aim and the finality of which are brought to light by it . . .' Giulio Carlo Argan in his Preface to the first volume of Klee's notebooks.
Title: Paul Klee. Notebooks. Volume 2: The Nature of Nature. Vol. 17 in the series ‘Documents of Modern Art’ edited by Robert Motherwell.
Author: Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (ed.), translated by Heinz Norden
Publisher: George Wittenborn Inc., New York
Format: Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with titles in green to spine.
Pages: 454pp.
Book Condition: Very Good. Upper spine tips bumped. Pages 146 and147 slight wavy. Dust Jacket Condition: 2 short tears to the upper spine tips. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01142
'The writings which compose Paul Klee's theory of form production and pictorial form have the same importance and the same meaning for modern art as had Leonardo's writings which composed his theory of painting for Renaissance art. Like the latter, they do not constitute a true and proper treatise, that is to say a collection of stylistic and technical rules, but are the result of an introspective analysis which the artist engages in during his work and in the light of the experience of reality which comes to him in the course of his work. This analysis which accompanies and controls the formation of a work of art is a necessary component of the artistic process, the aim and the finality of which are brought to light by it . . .' Giulio Carlo Argan in his Preface to the first volume of Klee's notebooks.
Title: Paul Klee. Notebooks. Volume 2: The Nature of Nature. Vol. 17 in the series ‘Documents of Modern Art’ edited by Robert Motherwell.
Author: Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (ed.), translated by Heinz Norden
Publisher: George Wittenborn Inc., New York
Format: Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with titles in green to spine.
Pages: 454pp.
Book Condition: Very Good. Upper spine tips bumped. Pages 146 and147 slight wavy. Dust Jacket Condition: 2 short tears to the upper spine tips. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01142
