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Hardcover Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf Book

ISBN: 0226816702

ISBN13: 9780226816708

Behind the Angel of History: The Angelus Novus and Its Interleaf

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...

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