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The Red Count : The Life and Times of Harry Kessler

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 on...

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Autor principal: Easton, Laird M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Art and Politics in Modern Germany; PART ONE: FAMILY AND EDUCATION; 1. Pirates and Philosophers; 2. From Ascot to Hamburg; 3. At the University; 4. From New York to Potsdam; PART TWO: APPRENTICESHIP; 5. Berlin in the 1890s; 6. Decadence and Renewal; 7. A Change of Plans; PART THREE: THE THIRD WEIMAR; 8. The New Weimar; 9. The Culture of the Eye; 10. A Theater of Dreams; 11. The Rodin Scandal; PART FOUR: THE FEVER CURVE; 12. Greek Idylls; 13. Hofmannsthal and Der Rosenkavalier; 14. A Monument for Nietzsche. 
505 0 |a 15. The Legend of JosephPART FIVE: WAR'S PURIFYING FIRE; 16. Furor Teutonicus; 17. Pax Germania; 18. Propaganda and Peace Feelers; 19. Apocalyptic Times; PART SIX: THE RED COUNT; 20. The Lost Revolution; 21. Pacifism and Its Discontents; 22. Diplomatic Missions; 23. American Interlude; 24. Retreat from Politics; PART SEVEN: THE PATH DOWNWARD; 25. The Golden Twenties; 26. Revenge of the Philistines; 27. "And thus he left me"; Conclusion: A World Forever Lost?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 
520 |a 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 Austria. 
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