The complete set of Paul Klee's Notebooks: The Thinking Eye & The Nature of Nature. Vols 1 & 2 (1973)
Title: Paul Klee. Notebooks. Volume 1: The Thinking Eye.
Author: Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (ed.), translated by Ralph Manheim
Publisher: Lund Humpries, London
Publication date: 1973 (Third printing of the 1961 First English Edition)
Format: Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with titles in yellow to spine. Yellow endpapers
Pages: 541pp.
Condition: Very Good. Some slight marks and rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise very good indeed
Stock Number: RB01262A
Title: Paul Klee. Notebooks. Volume 2: The Nature of Nature
Author: Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (ed.), translated by Heinz Norden
Publisher: Lund Humpries, London
Publication date: 1973 (First English Edition)
Format: Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with titles in green to spine. Green stiff card endpapers
Pages: 454pp.
Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket with a few small nicks and tears to the upper edge, particularly at the upper spine tips and a 2cm tear to the rear panel. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01262B
'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.
The basis for Klee’s Bauhaus courses is primarily found in the notes for his lecture 'Contributions to a Theory of Pictorial Form' which are published in full in Notebooks Volume 1. This first volume has been assembled from more than 2,500 pages of Klee’s notebooks containing memos, ideas for teaching projects, drawings, and preliminary sketches for paintings. This volume also includes Klee’s important texts 'Creative Credo', 'Ways of Nature Study' as well as the Jena lecture of 1924 and the essay' Exact Experiments in the Realm of Art'. The texts are accompanied by more than 1000 drawings, as well as 188 half-tone illustrations, eight of which are reproduced in full colour.
Volume 2 The Nature of Nature, is essentially assembled from Klee’s notes and illustrations for his winter 1923/24 Bauhaus lecture entitled General system of pictorial media combined with nature study.” Volume 2 does however complement and occasionally overlap with the first volume and is not strictly limited to Klee’s 1923/24 lecture notes as the editors have included material from Klee's other papers where they assist in developing specific points.
Title: Paul Klee. Notebooks. Volume 1: The Thinking Eye.
Author: Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (ed.), translated by Ralph Manheim
Publisher: Lund Humpries, London
Publication date: 1973 (Third printing of the 1961 First English Edition)
Format: Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with titles in yellow to spine. Yellow endpapers
Pages: 541pp.
Condition: Very Good. Some slight marks and rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise very good indeed
Stock Number: RB01262A
Title: Paul Klee. Notebooks. Volume 2: The Nature of Nature
Author: Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (ed.), translated by Heinz Norden
Publisher: Lund Humpries, London
Publication date: 1973 (First English Edition)
Format: Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with titles in green to spine. Green stiff card endpapers
Pages: 454pp.
Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket with a few small nicks and tears to the upper edge, particularly at the upper spine tips and a 2cm tear to the rear panel. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01262B
'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.
The basis for Klee’s Bauhaus courses is primarily found in the notes for his lecture 'Contributions to a Theory of Pictorial Form' which are published in full in Notebooks Volume 1. This first volume has been assembled from more than 2,500 pages of Klee’s notebooks containing memos, ideas for teaching projects, drawings, and preliminary sketches for paintings. This volume also includes Klee’s important texts 'Creative Credo', 'Ways of Nature Study' as well as the Jena lecture of 1924 and the essay' Exact Experiments in the Realm of Art'. The texts are accompanied by more than 1000 drawings, as well as 188 half-tone illustrations, eight of which are reproduced in full colour.
Volume 2 The Nature of Nature, is essentially assembled from Klee’s notes and illustrations for his winter 1923/24 Bauhaus lecture entitled General system of pictorial media combined with nature study.” Volume 2 does however complement and occasionally overlap with the first volume and is not strictly limited to Klee’s 1923/24 lecture notes as the editors have included material from Klee's other papers where they assist in developing specific points.
Title: Paul Klee. Notebooks. Volume 1: The Thinking Eye.
Author: Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (ed.), translated by Ralph Manheim
Publisher: Lund Humpries, London
Publication date: 1973 (Third printing of the 1961 First English Edition)
Format: Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with titles in yellow to spine. Yellow endpapers
Pages: 541pp.
Condition: Very Good. Some slight marks and rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise very good indeed
Stock Number: RB01262A
Title: Paul Klee. Notebooks. Volume 2: The Nature of Nature
Author: Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (ed.), translated by Heinz Norden
Publisher: Lund Humpries, London
Publication date: 1973 (First English Edition)
Format: Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth-covered boards with titles in green to spine. Green stiff card endpapers
Pages: 454pp.
Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket with a few small nicks and tears to the upper edge, particularly at the upper spine tips and a 2cm tear to the rear panel. Otherwise very good.
Stock Number: RB01262B
'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.
The basis for Klee’s Bauhaus courses is primarily found in the notes for his lecture 'Contributions to a Theory of Pictorial Form' which are published in full in Notebooks Volume 1. This first volume has been assembled from more than 2,500 pages of Klee’s notebooks containing memos, ideas for teaching projects, drawings, and preliminary sketches for paintings. This volume also includes Klee’s important texts 'Creative Credo', 'Ways of Nature Study' as well as the Jena lecture of 1924 and the essay' Exact Experiments in the Realm of Art'. The texts are accompanied by more than 1000 drawings, as well as 188 half-tone illustrations, eight of which are reproduced in full colour.
Volume 2 The Nature of Nature, is essentially assembled from Klee’s notes and illustrations for his winter 1923/24 Bauhaus lecture entitled General system of pictorial media combined with nature study.” Volume 2 does however complement and occasionally overlap with the first volume and is not strictly limited to Klee’s 1923/24 lecture notes as the editors have included material from Klee's other papers where they assist in developing specific points.