Kleine Welt, Paperback

Published on the occasion of the Kleine Welt exhibition at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, this book offers a close-up look at the art and semantics of the book cover, focusing on the images of Caspar David Friedrich and Paul Klee and their enduring popularity in the academic publishing world. Turning an eye to the artworks that repeatedly adorn book covers, Kleine Welt includes a collection of covers that have used Friedrich's iconic painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog in their designs along with photographs and annotations of covers that feature works by Klee. This volume brings together contributions from notable writers, artists, and philosophers including Dieter Roelstraete, Jonathan Lear, and Hans Haacke, among others, and original artwork by David Schutter, R. H. Quaytman, and Zachary Cahill.

About author(s):Dieter Roelstraete is the curator at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. He has served as a curator for documenta14 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and is the author or editor of several books. Jonathan Lear is the Roman Family Director at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Susan Bielstein is the executive editor for art and ancient studies at the University of Chicago Press. Dennis J. Schmidt is research professor and chair at Western Sydney University. Zachary Cahill is an interdisciplinary artist and curator at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. Hans Haacke is a German-born artist living in New York.