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

by Annie Bourneuf

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226816702
• ISBN13: 9780226816708
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.9"