Heidegger, Paul Klee, and the origin of the work of art.(Martin Heidegger )(Critical essay)

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

WHILE HE WAS SAID TO HAVE FOUND PAUL KLEE'S WRITINGS too neo-Kantian, overly concerned with form, and too cosmological, Martin Heidegger spent hours looking at Klee's late paintings and expressed a keen interest that was never fulfilled to write about them. Nonetheless, the writing on art that is his most well known, "The Origin of the Work of Art," written in the mid-1930's, remained a somewhat conflicted work about the art of its time. It began as an exposition of the history of ontological concepts that issued in the distinctions between form and matter "usually employed" in ...

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