Notebooks (Vol. 1: The Thinking Eye, Vol. 2: The Nature of Nature)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: Vol I - 1st ed, 3rd pr.; Vol II - 1st eng ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: price clipped djs. Some foxing on book blocks.
Few artists have articulated their creative vision with the intellectual rigor and poetic clarity of Paul Klee, and his two-volume Notebooks stand as one of the most extraordinary documents in the history of modern art. Notebooks Volume 1: The Thinking Eye presents Klee's foundational theories on form, line, color, and movement, drawn directly from the lectures he delivered at the legendary Bauhaus school, offering an unparalleled window into the mind of a master. Accompanied by hundreds of diagrams, sketches, and visual exercises, the work instructs readers in Klee's unique pictorial language — one that dissolves the boundary between the rational and the intuitive, the scientific and the spiritual. Notebooks Volume 2: The Nature of Nature extends this inquiry into the organic world, chronicling Klee's rigorous analysis of natural forms, from fluid dynamics to plant growth, and illustrating how these forces underpin all visual creation. Together, the two volumes illuminate not only the methodology behind Klee's own celebrated paintings but also a comprehensive philosophy of art-making that continues to influence artists, designers, and educators worldwide. Written with the precision of a scientist and the soul of a poet, these notebooks are an essential — and endlessly rewarding — testament to one of the twentieth century's most original creative intellects: a mind that saw nature and art as one unbroken conversation.
Author: Paul Klee; edited by SPILLER, Jurg; translated by MANHEIM, Ralph
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Lund Humphries
Genre: The arts
Edition: Vol I - 1st ed, 3rd pr.; Vol II - 1st eng ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: price clipped djs. Some foxing on book blocks.
Few artists have articulated their creative vision with the intellectual rigor and poetic clarity of Paul Klee, and his two-volume Notebooks stand as one of the most extraordinary documents in the history of modern art. Notebooks Volume 1: The Thinking Eye presents Klee's foundational theories on form, line, color, and movement, drawn directly from the lectures he delivered at the legendary Bauhaus school, offering an unparalleled window into the mind of a master. Accompanied by hundreds of diagrams, sketches, and visual exercises, the work instructs readers in Klee's unique pictorial language — one that dissolves the boundary between the rational and the intuitive, the scientific and the spiritual. Notebooks Volume 2: The Nature of Nature extends this inquiry into the organic world, chronicling Klee's rigorous analysis of natural forms, from fluid dynamics to plant growth, and illustrating how these forces underpin all visual creation. Together, the two volumes illuminate not only the methodology behind Klee's own celebrated paintings but also a comprehensive philosophy of art-making that continues to influence artists, designers, and educators worldwide. Written with the precision of a scientist and the soul of a poet, these notebooks are an essential — and endlessly rewarding — testament to one of the twentieth century's most original creative intellects: a mind that saw nature and art as one unbroken conversation.