Klee's Mirror (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

The artist Paul Klee once said that art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible. In "Klee s Mirror" John Sallis examines the various ways in which Klee s art makes visible things that ordinarily go unseen. He shows how Klee s art is like a mirror capable of reflecting not only the surface appearance of things, but also their hidden depth and the cosmic setting to which they belong. Tracing the relation of Klee s paintings and drawings to music, poetry, and philosophy, Sallis also takes account of Klee s own extensive writings, both theoretical and autobiographical, and of the incisive lectures that he presented while teaching at the Bauhaus. Featuring large, high-quality reproductions, "Klee s Mirror" shows how the painter s theories both are exemplified in his art and, in turn, are enhanced and extended by what his art achieves and reveals."