Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia - Hardcover

Benjamin, Roger; Ashjian, Cristina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520283651 ISBN 13: 9780520283657

Verlag: University of California Press, 2015

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"The sensitive exploration of the subject, the wide range of sources consulted, the fieldwork carried out, and Benjamin's captivating and accessible writing make this book essential reading for anyone who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of the art inspired by these two journeys and of the experiences and cultural encounters provided for the artists concerned." -- MAURICE RUMMENS Burlington Magazine

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Paul Klee experienced his 1914 trip to Tunisia as a major breakthrough for his art: Color and I are one," he famously wrote. I am a painter." Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia sets the scene for Klee's breakthrough with a close study of the parallel voyage undertaken in 1904 5 by Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter, who would later become Klee's friends. This artist couple, then at an early stage in their celebrated careers, produced a rich body of painting and photography known only to specialists. Paul Klee's 1914 trip with August Macke and Louis Moilliet, in contrast, is a vaunted convergence of cubism and the exotic. Roger Benjamin refigures these two seminal voyages in terms of colonial culture and politics, the fabric of ancient Tunisian cities, visual ethnography, and the tourist photograph. The book looks closely at the cities of Tunis, Sousse, Hammamet, and Kairouan to flesh out a profound confrontation between European high modernism and the wealth of Islamic lifeways and architecture. Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia offers a new understanding of how the European avant-garde was formed in dialogue with cultural difference.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0520283651
• ISBN 13: 9780520283657
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248