{"product_id":"the-klee-universe","title":"The Klee Universe","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are artists whose mtier is the observation or documentation of the world  and artists who set the world aside altogether to build their own visionary cosmology  designing its constituent parts from scratch as a personal mythology relayed in motifs. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was such an artist  as his aphorism \"Art does not reproduce the visible  rather it makes visible\" testifies  and The Klee Universe addresses his work from this perspective. In 1906  Klee noted in his diary  \"All will be Klee \" and in 1911  as the encyclopedist of his cosmos  he began to meticulously chronicle his works in a catalogue that  by the time he died  was to contain more than 9 000 items. Here  in the fashion of an Orbis Pictus or a Renaissance emblem book  Klees oeuvre is made legible as a cogent entirety  in thematic units address: the human life cycle  from birth and childhood to sexual desire  parenthood and death; music  architecture  theater and religion; plants  animals and landscapes; and  finally  darker  destructive forces in the shape of war  fear and death. The Klee Universe reimagines the artist as a Renaissance man  an artist of great learning whose cosmos proves to be a coherent system of ideas and images. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was born and died in Switzerland  though he never obtained Swiss citizenship. Technically of German nationality  he taught at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1926  alongside Wassily Kandinsky  Franz Marc and others. Seventeen of his works were included in the Nazis infamous 1937 Munich exhibition of \"degenerate art.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987618459701,"sku":"ByrdShop_3775722734","price":172.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783775722735.jpg?v=1770949315","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-klee-universe","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}