Books like Paul Klee

Paul Klee by Paul Klee reads as analytical, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Mondrian

Piet Mondrian · 1943

Both explore abstraction & modernism

82% genome match

Visual thinking

Rudolf Arnheim · 1969

Both explore perception & creativity

76% genome match

Matisse

Henri Matisse · 1943

Both explore creativity & modernism

60% genome match

Kandinsky und Gabriele Münter

Wassily Kandinsky · 1994

Both explore modernism

49% genome match

Meditations on a hobby horse, and other essays on the theory of art

E. H. Gombrich · 1963

Both explore art theory & perception

72% genome match

Style and idea

Arnold Schoenberg · 1950

Both explore modernism & artistic process

73% genome match

Lectures in America

Gertrude Stein · 1935

Both explore modernism & creativity

74% genome match

On poetry and poets

T. S. Eliot · 1957

Both explore modernism & art theory

69% genome match

On Ugliness

Umberto Eco · 2007

Both explore perception

63% genome match

ABC of reading

Ezra Pound · 1934

Both explore modernism

67% genome match

A Primer for Forgetting

Lewis Hyde · 2019

Both explore creativity

66% genome match

Art since 1900

Hal Foster · 2004

Both explore art theory

61% genome match