Paul Klee, Wilhelm Hausenstein, and the "Problem of Style" | Charles Mark Haxthausen

Paul Klee, Wilhelm Hausenstein, and the "Problem of Style"
Charles Mark Haxthausen, Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History, Williams College
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February 25, 2014
In the art of Paul Klee (1879-1940), we find an unmatched pluralism of styles--figurative as well as abstract, geometric as well as biomorphic, linear as well as painterly, severe styles alongside more fluid ones, often within the production of a single year. In this lecture, Charles Mark Haxthausen, former Member in the School of Historical Studies (2002) and Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History at Williams College, examines the significance of such a radical practice in the context of the intense debates of the period concerning the social and cultural implications of pictorial style, with a focus on the writings of the critic Wilhelm Hausenstein.
This lecture is part of an art history lecture series cosponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study and the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.
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Style is the mode or methodology of training that allows the eventual transcendence of that method - a breakthrough into a condition of freedomof creative expression - free of self and contrived habituated pattern. It isestablished by a master practitioner who has herself broken through the style under which they trained. Breakthrough cannot be attained in less than 10 years of training and is generaly a life-time activity. It is an aspect of character forging-transformation. It is not in any way limited to the fine arts. The idea that one becomes and "artist" upon the mere creation of something new that is attractive, interesting, or merly enertaining or clever is silly. Our Museums and Galleries are full of such non-art.