Klee's Mirror

Author:   John Sallis
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
ISBN:  

9781438454801


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   01 March 2015
Format:   Paperback
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A philosophical perspective on the relation between Paul Klee's art and his thought.

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Author:   John Sallis
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438454801


ISBN 10:   1438454805
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   01 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments References to the Writings of Paul Klee Reflection 1. Artspan 2. Reticence and Polyphony 3. True to Nature 4. Making Visible 5. Light 6. Line to Color 7. Bordering on Philosophy 8. The Truth of Klee's Mirror 9. Phantastical 10. Writing and the Language of Painting 11. Musicality 12. Freeing the Line 13. Time of Death

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Klee's Mirror is a masterful interpretation of one of the most inspiring artists in the Western tradition, one that will surely capture the interest of philosophers, art history scholars, as well as students and lovers of Paul Klee's works. - Alejandro A. Vallega, author of Sense and Finitude: Encounters at the Limits of Language, Art, and the Political Paul Klee mused in his diary that his art was a kind of mirror whose aim was not 'to reflect the surface' but rather 'to penetrate inside' such that, for example, his 'human faces are truer than the real ones.' In his exquisite new study, Sallis takes up the complex question of Klee's mysterious mirrors. On the one hand, Klee's works themselves are mirrors of truth, making visible, Sallis tells us, 'what otherwise remains invisible,' reflecting 'what lies beyond the visible surface of things.' On the other hand, Klee's own theoretical writings are extraordinarily articulate and they uniquely mirror his artistic work. Klee's paintings are not, however, illustrations or representations of Klee's ideas. The mirror of Klee's painting demands a new kind of reflective writing. Finally, there is the mirror of Sallis' own work, deftly navigating between Klee's brilliant double mirror play, producing in turn a startlingly and innovative mode of writing that twists free of the dualism of sensibility and intelligibility. - Jason M. Wirth, author of The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time


Author Information

John Sallis is Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has written many books, including The Gathering of Reason: Second Edition; Platonic Legacies; and Double Truth, all published by SUNY Press.

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