Paul Klee - 1939

In 1939 - the year before his death from a long illness and against a backdrop of sociopolitical turmoil and the outbreak of World War II - Paul Klee worked with a vigor and inventiveness that rivaled even the most productive periods of his youth. This book illuminates the artist's response to his personal difficulties and the era's broader realities through imagery that is tirelessly inventive - by turns political, solemn, playful, humorous and poetic. The works featured testify to Klee's restless drive to experiment with form and material.