The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler Volume 30

by Laird M. Easton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520248171
• ISBN13: 9780520248175
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"