Klee and America Menil Publications and metallic crystalline structures—he generates

and metallic crystalline structures—he generates a close connection between the phenomenology of things and their surroundings

With detailed installation diagrams and reproductions of every art object displayed published here for the first time

and curator

Michel Draguet is director general of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Klee and America Menil Publications and metallic crystalline structures—he generatesKlee and America accompanies the first large scale exhibition of Paul Klees (18791940) work to take place in the United States in almost two decades. Despite his recent low profile in the country, the work of the German born artist has a long history of enthusiastic reception in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 1940s. By the early 1920s, Klee was one of the leading figures within the European modernist movement, often mentioned