Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia / Roger Benjamin with Cristina Ashjian.
Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia / Roger Benjamin with Cristina Ashjian.
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Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Call Numbers
G 2015/3143
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 233 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
"Ella" and "Wassi" : the lovers as tourists -- Kandinsky and the ethno-decorative : working negroes -- Hôtel Saint Georges and the terrain vague -- Tunisian decorative art and the Belvedere Park -- Modern Carthage, 1905 -- Carnivals and fantasias -- Mosques and marabouts of Tunis : open space -- Ar...
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Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
"Paul Klee experienced his 1914 trip to Tunisia as a major breakthrough for his art: 'Color and I are one,' he famously wrote. 'I am a painter.' 'Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia' sets the scene for Klee's breakthrough with a close study of the parallel voyage undertaken in 1904-5 by Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter, who would later become Klee'...
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Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia / Roger Benjamin with Cristina Ashjian.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2015/3143
Record Identifier
74VKRw0PdrPX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRw0PdrPX
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ISBN
0520283651 hardcover alkaline paper
9780520283657 hardcover alkaline paper
DDC
740.922
MMS ID
991023009239702626
