Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Benjamin, Roger 1957- (συγγραφέας.)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ashjian, Cristina (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
• Θέματα: Kandinsky, Wassily, > 1866-1944 > Ταξίδι > Τυνησία; Klee, Paul > 1879-1940 > Ταξίδι > Τυνησία; Μοντερνισμός (Τέχνη) > Ευρώπη; Τέχνη, Μοντέρνα > 20ός αιώνας; Τυνησία > Στην τέχνη

"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 un...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• "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
• Arches and alleys of Tunis : compressed space
• Arab city : views of Sousse and Kairouan
• Memories of the Maghreb and Arab Cemetery, 1909
• Munich-Tunis: a bildungsreise
• Pictures of Tunis, April 1914
• The "European colony" of St. Germain
• A crystalline Hammamet
• The holy city of Kairouan
• Sidi Sahabi and l'art populaire
• Outside the walls of Kairouan
• Mosque of the Sabres
• North African resonances, 1914-1915
• Conclusion : navigating colonial cultures.