Ten Americans: After Paul Klee
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Ten Americans: After Paul Klee Details
Paul Klee’s influence on a wide range of American artists is explored in-depth in this stunning book. Critics have traditionally confined Paul Klee’s contribution to American art as one of "spirit," and limited to the works of the New York School and other Abstract Expressionist painters. In fact, Klee’s influence on American art is more expansive, as illustrated in this study of ten artists who, through their use of automatic drawing, color field painting, symbols, and pictographs, reveal how Klee’s theories and artistic methods contributed to the history of post-war American art. The ten artists explored include familiar names, such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Mark Tobey, Gene Davis, and Kenneth Noland, as well as lesser-known artists William Baziotes, Norman Lewis, Theodore Stamos, and Bradley Walker Tomlin. The richly-illustrated book features essays exploring Klee’s legacy among various schools of American art and a chronology illustrates where and how American artists learned about Klee. It also includes a profile of each artist and their connections to Klee, followed by exquisite reproductions of their works.
Reviews
It is a wonderful catalog that captures the essence of an amazing exhibition both in Bern and @ the Phillips in Washington DC. Elsa Smithgall and Fabienne Egglehofer should be commended for not only creating a beautiful living legacy of the exhibition - but an incredibly informative document tracing the influence Paul Klee had on these 10 important American artists... well done folks!
