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The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler
Laird M. Easton
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Paperback. The life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on the tumultuous transformation of art and politics that took place in modern Europe between 1890 and 1930. This is his biography. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 512 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; AB; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 814.
The life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on the tumultuous transformation of art and politics that took place in modern Europe between 1890 and 1930. In the first half of his career Kessler was one of the most ardent and well-known champions of aesthetic modernism in Imperial Germany, becoming a friend and patron to pioneering artists and writers of his day, most notably French sculptor Aristide Maillol, Belgian architect Henry van de Velde, English theater designer Gordon Craig, and Austrian poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal ... Read more
The life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on the tumultuous transformation of art and politics that took place in modern Europe between 1890 and 1930. In the first half of his career Kessler was one of the most ardent and well-known champions of aesthetic modernism in Imperial Germany, becoming a friend and patron to pioneering artists and writers of his day, most notably French sculptor Aristide Maillol, Belgian architect Henry van de Velde, English theater designer Gordon Craig, and Austrian poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism
Condition
New
Weight
813g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520248175
SKU
V9780520248175
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About Laird M. Easton
Laird M. Easton is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Chico.
Reviews for The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler
"W.H. Auden called him probably the most cosmopolitan man who ever lived. Aesthete, patron, diplomat, diarist, peace campaigner, defender of the Weimar republic and exile from Nazism, this ultra-sophisticated German count belongs to a type that probably no longer exists: a moneyed and cultivated amateur whose brains and background brought him effortless access to politics, society and intellectual life in ... Read more