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"title": "Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988",
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"title": "The German Tradition",
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"title": "Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper",
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"description": "Galerie Rosengart, Lucern (old label in file; stamped, verso, lower center, in purple ink: GALERIE ROSENGART / LUZERN). Frederick C. Shang, South Norwalk, Connecticut (old label in file); Eugene Victor Thaw (departmental catalog sheet); [The New Gallery, New York] (old label in file)",
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"description": "Paul Klee made this drawing during World War I. It shows a hovering figure, who could be saintly or demonic, overlooking a scene that includes a zeppelin, a decapitated child, a fallen soldier, and a recoiling (or attacking) figure. The soldier\u2019s helmet displays a handle, implying the mechanized or dehumanized war machine. Klee\u2019s title for the drawing includes the depiction of a point (\u2022), which refers to the circular zeppelin or circle that frequently appeared in his drawings as a menacing omen. In 1915 Klee wrote: \u201cThe more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract; while a world at peace produces realistic art.\u201d",
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"citation": "Klee, Paul, Pavel Tchelitchew, Franz Kline, and Louise S. Richards. \u201cThree Contemporary Drawings.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 3 (March 1962): 55\u201359.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 55-56, fig. 1",
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