Camel (in rhythmic landscape with trees) were also created at this time. This is the period when the artist was working and teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar under the direction of Walter Gropius. The task of teaching caused Klee to meditate on the problems of art and as a result he produced what Herbert Read called "the most profound and illuminating statement of the aesthetic basis of the modern movement in art ever made by a practising artist". Camel (in rhythmic landscape with trees) Camel (in rhythmic landscape with trees) ["German: Kamel (in rhythmischer baumlandschaft)"] is a painting by Swiss artist Paul Klee in the
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter has been hailed as "thrilling" ("The New York Sun") and "utterly astonishing" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), a "memorable performance...whose tone and oddly compelling vision are distinctly [Aira's] own" ("The Los Angeles Times"). In his "San Francisco Chronicle" review, critic Ilan Stavans places this work alongside that of Roberto Bolaño as a modern Latin American novel likely to endure beyond its present moment. 1. "Latin Americans Still Tweaking the Novel." San Francisco Chronicle. July 16, 2006. <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/16/RVGVPJQP0T1.DTL>. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira was first published in