9783775717236-3775717234-Klee and America

Klee and America

ISBN-13: 9783775717236
ISBN-10: 3775717234
Author: Vivian Endicott Barnett, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Jenny Anger
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9783775717236
ISBN-10: 3775717234
Author: Vivian Endicott Barnett, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Jenny Anger
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

Summary

Klee and America (ISBN-13: 9783775717236 and ISBN-10: 3775717234), written by authors Vivian Endicott Barnett, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Jenny Anger, was published by Hatje Cantz Publishers in 2006. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Individual Artists (Arts Collections) books. You can easily purchase or rent Klee and America (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Individual Artists books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $6.74.

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Paul Klee was a leading figure in European Modernism, and his acclaim at home was quickly matched in the United States, where both private collectors and major museums sought out his work. Klee and America explores the reasons for that enthusiastic reception, especially during the 1930s and 1940s, while the artist was being targeted in Hitler's campaign against Entartete Kunst (degenerate art). Just as the European market for Klee's work was collapsing, American patrons and curators were gobbling it up. And after he had been removed from his teaching post in Dsseldorf and had returned to his childhood home in Switzerland, Klee continued to be represented by a number of German-Jewish art dealers who had emigrated to the U.S. Eventually his work landed in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, among others. Foremost among Klee's earliest American collectors was Katherine Dreier, whose Societe Anonyme, founded with artists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, sponsored the exhibitions of pioneering abstract art in which his paintings were first shown in America. In Los Angeles, Walter and Louise Arensberg assembled a vast collection of Klee's paintings. In 1939, Alfred Barr Jr. bought a first canvas for MoMA. Klee and America examines this history and offers an impressive selection of Klee's finest "American" works, both paintings and drawings.

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