@article{ART003149382},
author={Jinhye Byun},
title={Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2024},
number={56},
pages={155-188},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2024..56.007}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jinhye Byun
TI - Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2024
VL - null
IS - 56
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 155
EP - 188
SN - 1598-7728
AB - Among the characteristics seen in another work by Paul Klee that Walter Benjamin owned, Introducing the Miracle, there are many elements that share Benjamin's ideas and concepts. In this paper, we will focus on Benjamin’s concept of the ‘dialectical image’ in particular, and examine the intersection between Benjamin’s philosophy of history and Klee’s thinking on plastic arts and its expression. This painting is characterized by emphasizing the contrast of plastic methods such as geometric and organic expressions, contrast of color, brightness, and chroma, etc. Likewise has the characteristic of prominently representing opposing concepts such as East and West, nature and city, death and life, inside and outside, etc. in terms of content. Furthermore, these contrasting elements form multiple layers and are expressed in a ‘palimpsest’, which is thought to be a plastic method that visually embodies Benjamin’s concept of ‘dialectical image’. Benjamin emphasizes that the true historian's attitude is to excavate discarded and forgotten objects and the legacy with the attitude of an archaeologist, reflecting on distant times based in the ‘here and now(Jetztzeit)’. This position of historical philosophy is exemplified in Introducing the Miracle, and is also the methods of plastic arts and attitude shown in most of Klee's works.
KW - modernity;Paul Klee;Walter Benjamin;Vorführung des Wunders;Dialectical Image
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2024..56.007
ER -
Jinhye Byun. (2024). Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’. Journal of History of Modern Art, 56, 155-188.
Jinhye Byun. 2024, "Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.56, pp.155-188. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2024..56.007
Jinhye Byun "Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’" Journal of History of Modern Art 56 pp.155-188 (2024) : 155.
Jinhye Byun. Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’. 2024; 56 : 155-188. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2024..56.007
Jinhye Byun. "Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’" Journal of History of Modern Art no.56(2024) : 155-188.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2024..56.007
Jinhye Byun. Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’. Journal of History of Modern Art, 56, 155-188. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2024..56.007
Jinhye Byun. Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2024; 56 155-188. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2024..56.007
Jinhye Byun. Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’. 2024; 56 : 155-188. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2024..56.007
Jinhye Byun. "Walter Benjamin’s First Paul Klee Collection, Introducing the Miracle and ‘Dialectical Images’" Journal of History of Modern Art no.56(2024) : 155-188.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2024..56.007
