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Paul Klee: Hand Puppets by Paul Klee (2006, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co KG
ISBN-103775717404
ISBN-139783775717403
eBay Product ID (ePID)63728836
Product Key Features
Book TitlePaul Klee: Hand Puppets
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicIndividual Artists / General, Puppets & Puppetry
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Crafts & Hobbies
AuthorPaul Klee
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight33.7 Oz
Item Length10.4 in
Item Width8.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisBetween 1916 and 1925 Paul Klee (1879-1940) made some 50 hand puppets for his son, Felix, of which 30 are still in existence. For the heads, he used materials from his own household: beef bones and electrical outlets, bristle brushes, leftover bits of fur and nutshells. Soon he began to sew costumes. These characters and small works, do not pretend to be great art, but at the same time, they are superbly imaginative, sweetly reminiscent of Klee's relationships with his family, and beautifully illustrative of the artistic and social developments of the time. Readers will see the chronological proximity of Dada and Kurt Schwitters's collages in Klee's Matchbox Ghost; the German National caricatures one of the era's more ominous political types. An introductory essay tracks the work's links to other avant-garde puppetry and to Klee's sculptural works, and notes his connections to the theater. For their part, Klee's son Felix and his grandson Alexander tell the story of how the figures were created., Between 1916 and 1925 Paul Klee (1879-1940) created a total of around fifty hand puppets for his son, Felix, of which thirty are still in existence. For the heads, the artist used materials from his own household: beef bones and electrical outlets, bristle brushes, leftover bits of fur, and nutshells. The first costumes were sewn by Sasha Morgenthaler, who later became a well-known puppet maker, but Klee soon took over this task himself.Although the hand puppets are a group of works that do not strive to be great art, they reflect the artistic and social developments of their time. For instance, the chronological proximity to Dada and the collages by Kurt Schwitters can be seen in Klee's Specter of the Matchbox, and with the German Nationalist he caricatured a political type of the day.This volume presents Paul Klee's superbly imaginative hand puppets and describes each figure in detail. An introductory essay is dedicated to Klee's connection to the theater, his relationship to the puppets made by other avant-garde artists, and his sculptural works. Klee's son, Felix, and his grandson, Alexander, relate how the figures were created. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-1739-7; French edition ISBN 978-3-7757-1741-0)
LC Classification NumberTT174.7
Text byHopfengart, Christine, Okuda, Osamu
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