Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch

Klee, Paul.

Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch.

München, Albert Langen 1925.

50, (1) pp. with many drawings.

23,5 x 19 cm. Original illustrated wrappers (designed by L. Moholy-Nagy).

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Bauhausbücher, vol. 2.

In his legendary Pedagogical Sketchbook, Paul Klee takes a theoretical approach to drawing using geometric shapes and lines. Evincing a desire to reunite artistic design and craft, and written in a tone that oscillates between the seeming objectivity of the diagram, the rhetoric of science and mathematics, and an abstract, quasi-mystical intuition, Klee’s text expresses key aspects of the Bauhaus’ pedagogy and guiding philosophies. And while Klee’s method is deeply personal, in the context of the fundamentally multivocal Bauhaus, his individual approach to abstract form is typical in its idiosyncrasy. In this book, he presents his own theory about the relationships between line, shape, surface, and color in the visual space.

Near mint copy.