Research Article

“Bittersweet Island” as Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making

Volume: 21 Number: 1 March 30, 2022
  • Oğuz Haşlakoğlu
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“Bittersweet Island” as Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making

Abstract

Present article offers a new way of ‘reading’ Paul Klee’s work “Insula Dulcamara” (1938) in its ‘pictorial language’. After a critical evaluation of a similar approach on the same work in its pros and cons the essay suggests that the very title of the work is actually encoded in the picture, providing a criterion and a visual mapping for its proposal. The method consists in obtaining the group of signs which forms a certain gestalt in the picture as Latin letters hidden in pseudo-Arabic script. In this way Latin letters are deformed to a point where it is not possible to be recognized immediately in their limits of legibility. After reading the whole sign group letter by letter the essay then goes on to compare Klee’s famous “making visible” remark with Cézanne’s much discussed “la réalisation”. Drawing conclusions from there, the article ends in showing how this masterpiece of Klee might be considered as an epithet of the artist in its etymological origin as an “emplacement”; a dwelling place of his own making.

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References

  1. Klee, P. (1961). The Thinking Eye - vol. 1 of Paul Klee’s Notebooks (ed. J. Spiller & trans. R. Manheim). London: Lund Humphries.
  2. Lazzaro, G. S. (1964). KLEE. A Study of His Life and Work. London: Thames and Hudson.
  3. Pike, C. D. (2014). Signing off: Paul Klee’s Insula dulcamara. Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, 30 (2), 117-130.
  4. Watson, S. H. (2009). Crescent Moon over the Rational: Philosophical Interpretations of Paul Klee. Stanford University Press.
  5. Young, J. (2001). Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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English

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Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Oğuz Haşlakoğlu This is me
0000-0002-3952-6136
Türkiye

Publication Date

March 30, 2022

Submission Date

January 7, 2022

Acceptance Date

February 1, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 21 Number: 1

APA
Haşlakoğlu, O. (2022). “Bittersweet Island” as Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi, 21(1), 68-77. https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.1082466
AMA
1.Haşlakoğlu O. “Bittersweet Island” as Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making. Kaygı. 2022;21(1):68-77. doi:10.20981/kaygi.1082466
Chicago
Haşlakoğlu, Oğuz. 2022. “‘Bittersweet Island’ As Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi 21 (1): 68-77. https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.1082466.
EndNote
Haşlakoğlu O (March 1, 2022) “Bittersweet Island” as Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi 21 1 68–77.
IEEE
[1]O. Haşlakoğlu, “‘Bittersweet Island’ as Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making”, Kaygı, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 68–77, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.20981/kaygi.1082466.
ISNAD
Haşlakoğlu, Oğuz. “‘Bittersweet Island’ As Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi 21/1 (March 1, 2022): 68-77. https://doi.org/10.20981/kaygi.1082466.
JAMA
1.Haşlakoğlu O. “Bittersweet Island” as Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making. Kaygı. 2022;21:68–77.
MLA
Haşlakoğlu, Oğuz. “‘Bittersweet Island’ As Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi, vol. 21, no. 1, Mar. 2022, pp. 68-77, doi:10.20981/kaygi.1082466.
Vancouver
1.Oğuz Haşlakoğlu. “Bittersweet Island” as Encoded Epithet: Klee in the Making. Kaygı. 2022 Mar. 1;21(1):68-77. doi:10.20981/kaygi.1082466

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