Paul Klee was a leading figure in European Modernism, and his acclaim at home was quickly matched in the United States, where both private collectors and major museums sought out his work. Klee and America explores the reasons for that enthusiastic reception, especially during the 1930s and 1940s, while the artist was being targeted in Hitler's campaign against Entartete Kunst (degenerate art). Just as the European market for Klee's work was collapsing, American patrons and curators were gobbling it up. And after he had ...
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Paul Klee was a leading figure in European Modernism, and his acclaim at home was quickly matched in the United States, where both private collectors and major museums sought out his work. Klee and America explores the reasons for that enthusiastic reception, especially during the 1930s and 1940s, while the artist was being targeted in Hitler's campaign against Entartete Kunst (degenerate art). Just as the European market for Klee's work was collapsing, American patrons and curators were gobbling it up. And after he had been removed from his teaching post in Dsseldorf and had returned to his childhood home in Switzerland, Klee continued to be represented by a number of German-Jewish art dealers who had emigrated to the U.S. Eventually his work landed in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, among others. Foremost among Klee's earliest American collectors was Katherine Dreier, whose Societe Anonyme , founded with artists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, sponsored the exhibitions of pioneering abstract art in which his paintings were first shown in America. In Los Angeles, Walter and Louise Arensberg assembled a vast collection of Klee's paintings. In 1939, Alfred Barr Jr. bought a first canvas for MoMA. Klee and America examines this history and offers an impressive selection of Klee's finest "American" works, both paintings and drawings.
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Very Good. Size: 9x1x11; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Tears to jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. 315 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm. Exploring the reasons for Paul Klee's enthusiastic reception in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 40s, this publication also includes a selection of his 'American' works from this period. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Very Good. 2006. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. 4to. Profusely illus. Some shelf-wear; tear to cloth and d.j. near base of spine. Else clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Art).
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VG (Small black dot on bottom of book block; a bit of edgewear on dj; otherwise crisp and clean. ) Crimson and color illus. boards, matching dust jacket, 315 pp., 97 color and 107 bw plates and figures. Issued in conjunction with a 2006-2007 exhibition series that explored "the reasons for Paul Klee's enthusiastic reception in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 1940s." (dj) With a variety of thematic essays, a chronology, and an exhibitions history, as well as the many color illustrations.
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Good in Good jacket. Book 315 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. Spine of dustjacket is sunned with some light shelfwear to the edges. Else, the binding is tight, the corners of the boards sharp, and interior is clean and free of markings. 96 illustrations in color. Edited by Josef Helfenstein. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Neue Galerie, New York NY March 10-May 22, 2006, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC June 16-September 10, 2006 and The Menil Collection, Houston TX October 6, 2006-January 14, 2007. Biography.
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Like New. Size: 9x1x11; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 315 pages: illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm. Exploring the reasons for Paul Klee's enthusiastic reception in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 40s, this publication also includes a selection of his 'American' works from this period. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
