Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia

by Roger Benjamin and Cristina Ashjian

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 M nter, who would later become Klee's friends. This artist couple, then at an early stage in their celebrated careers, produced a rich body of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520283651
• ISBN13: 9780520283657
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 10.4"