MARC details
000 -LEADER |
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780520283657 (cloth : alk. paper) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0520283651 (cloth : alk. paper) |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
AE-DuAJ |
Transcribing agency |
AE-ShKH |
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
Geographic area code |
f-ti--- |
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
N6758.5.M63 |
Item number |
B46 2015 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Benjamin, Roger, |
Dates associated with a name |
1957- |
Relator term |
author. |
9 (RLIN) |
12324 |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Roger Benjamin with Cristina Ashjian. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Oakland, California : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
University of California Press, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
[2015] |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
ix, 233 pages : |
Other physical details |
illustrations (chiefly color) ; |
Dimensions |
27 cm |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
"Ella" and "Wassi" : the lovers as tourists -- Kandinsky and the ethno-decorative : working negroes -- Hotel 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. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
"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's friends. This artist couple, then at an early stage in their celebrated careers, produced a rich body of painting and photography known only to specialists. Paul Klee's 1914 trip with August Macke and Louis Moilliet, in contrast, is a vaunted convergence of Cubism and the exotic. Roger Benjamin refigures these two seminal voyages in terms of colonial culture and politics, the fabric of ancient Tunisian cities, visual ethnography, and the tourist photograph. The book looks closely at the cities of Tunis, Sousse, Hammamet, and Kairouan to flesh out a profound confrontation between European high modernism and the wealth of Islamic lifeways and architecture. Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia offers a new understanding of how the European avant-garde was formed in dialogue with cultural difference"-- |
Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Kandinsky, Wassily, |
Dates associated with a name |
1866-1944 |
General subdivision |
Travel |
Geographic subdivision |
Tunisia. |
9 (RLIN) |
10304 |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Klee, Paul, |
Dates associated with a name |
1879-1940 |
General subdivision |
Travel |
Geographic subdivision |
Tunisia. |
9 (RLIN) |
12325 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Modernism (Art) |
Geographic subdivision |
Europe |
General subdivision |
African influences. |
9 (RLIN) |
12326 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Art, Modern |
Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
9 (RLIN) |
12327 |
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
Geographic name |
Tunisia |
General subdivision |
In art. |
9 (RLIN) |
12011 |
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Ashjian, Cristina, |
Relator term |
author. |
9 (RLIN) |
12012 |