The Zentrum Paul Klee and Tilman Osterwald, eds. — Max Beckmann: Dream of Life

Ostfildern / Bern, Hatje Cantz / Zentrum Paul Klee, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Produced in conjunction with the Exhibition Max Beckmann - a Dream of Life, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, March 31 - June 18, 2006. Contributions by the editors and by Andreas Marti, Tilman Osterwold, Cornelia Hamburg, Reinhard Spieler, Barbar Stehle-Akhtar, Sean Rainbird, and Annabelle Kienle. 160 pp., and with 135 illustrations, 117 in color. The dust jacket blurb has it that "This panoramic presentation of Max Beckmann's painted oeuvre sheds new light on central themes such as the world of cabaret, music, and the theater, dreams and reality, staged sensuality, and the role of the female muse, as well as the artist's unusual ways of employing romanticizing visual motifs in landscapes and urban contexts. This book contains illuminating essays by Cornelia Homburg, Anabelle Kienle, Tilman Osterwold, Sean Rainbird, Reinhard Spieler, and Barbar Stehle-Akhtar, focusing especially on conceptional aspects much neglected int date by specialists." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,