Behind the Angel of History The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf

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English | ISBN: 0226816702 | 2022 | 176 pages | PDF | 14 MB
The story of artist R. H. Quaytman’s discovery of an engraving hidden behind a famous artwork by Paul Klee.

This book begins with artist R. H. Quaytman uncovering something startling about a picture by Paul Klee. Pasted beneath Klee’s 1920 Angelus Novus-famous for its role in the writings of its first owner, Walter Benjamin-Quaytman found that Klee had interleaved a nineteenth-century engraving of Martin Luther, leaving just enough visible to provoke questions.
Behind the Angel of History reveals why this hidden face matters, delving into the intertwined artistic, political, and theological issues consuming Germany in the wake of the Great War. With the
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