Pedagogical Sketchbook

[1953]. First English edition. 62pp, extensively illustrated with black and white drawings and sketches etc in text. In grey cloth-covered boards with red lettering front and spine. Small 4to. Boards very slightly rubbed on corners and spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring some faint toning on endpapers only. Pedagogical Sketchbook is based on Paul Klee's extensive lectures on visual form at Bauhaus Staatliche Art School between 1921 and 1931. Originally handwritten, it was eventually edited by Walter Gropius and designed by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and published in 1925 as a Bauhaus Student Manual. Translated into English by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, she also contributed an introduction and concluding note to this edition. This edition preserves the original layout (which later reprints do not always do). Together with Theory of Color by Johannes Itten and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky, it is a legacy of the concept and teaching methods on art theory and practice of the Bauhaus Art School.