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Creative Confession brings together three short critical texts written by Paul Klee; one of the most distinctive artists of the early twentieth century. Reflective and often lyrical; the essays exemplify Klee s artistic thinking and his relationship with the creative process.Entitled "Graphic Art" (published as Creative Confession; 1920); "Ways of Nature Study" (1923) and "Exact Experiments in the Realm of Art" (1928); the texts arch into each other through a number of common and overlapping concerns: the alliance between what Klee terms his graphic art; nature; and abstraction; and the role of the artist in this triumvirate; the notion of genius; equating creativity with Genesis as well as nature; and the importance of the process as well as the outcome of art.The practical function of these writings was to draw a wider public into a dialogue that Klee was already having with the world around him through his art. Indeed; he said Art does not reproduce what is visible; instead it makes it visible; and it is with this philosophy that he talks us through his own creative confessions.With a postscript by Matthew Gale; Head of Display at Tate Modern; on the origins and context of the essays; this compact new edition is a must for any Klee fan; as well as those wishing to explore Modern artistic ideas.