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Author Watson, Stephen

Title Crescent Moon over the Rational : Philosophical Interpretations of Paul Klee
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages)
Contents Contents; List of Figures: Works of Paul Klee; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Texts; Introduction: Interpreting Klee: Fusing the Architectonic and the Poetic; 1. On the Withdrawal of the Beautiful: Adorno's and Merleau-Ponty's Readings of Klee; 2. Gadamer, Benjamin, Aesthetic Modernism, and the Rehabilitation of Allegory: The Relevance of Klee; 3. Of Sartre, Klee, Surrealism, and Philosophy: Toward a "Nonprosaic" Conception of Consciousness; 4. Heidegger, Klee's Turn, and the Origin of the Work of Art
5. "Fiscourse / Digure": Of Nomadism, the Specter of Oedipus, and the Remnants of the Sublime6. The Rapture of Sensuousness: "Color Possesses Me ... I Am a Painter"; Notes; Index
Summary Watson investigates the responses of of key twentieth-century philosophers to the work of artist Paul Klee and reveals how the art and philosophy mutually illuminate each other through these encounters
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Subject Klee, Paul, 1879-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
Klee, Paul, 1879-1940 -- Influence
SUBJECT Klee, Paul, 1879-1940 fast
Subject Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
Art and philosophy.
Art criticism -- History -- 20th century
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern
Art and philosophy
Art criticism
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Philosophy, Modern
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804772990
0804772991