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" The red count : "
Laird McLeod Easton.
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BL
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583752
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b412971
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| Main Entry
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Easton, Laird McLeod,1956-
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The red count : : the life and times of Harry Kessler /\ Laird McLeod Easton.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, c2002.
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| Series Statement
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Weimar and now ;; 30
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xv, 497 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0520230353 (alk. paper)
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: 9780520230354 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-481) and index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. Family and education --1. Pirates and philosophers -- 2. From Ascot to Hamburg -- 3. At the university -- 4. From New York to Potsdam -- pt. 2. Apprenticeship -- 5. Berlin in the 1890s -- 6. Decadence and renewal -- 7. A change of plans -- pt. 3. The third Weimar -- 8. The new Weimar -- 9. The culture of the eye --10. A theater of dreams -- 11. The Rodin scandal -- pt. 4. The fever curve -- 12. Greek idylls --13. Hofmannsthal and Der Rosenkavalier --14. A monument for Nietzsche --15. The legend of Joseph -- pt. 5. War's purifying fire --16. Furor Teutonicus --17. Pax Germania --18. Propaganda and peace feelers --19. Apocalyptic times -- pt. 6. The red count -- 20. The lost revolution -- 21. Pacifism and its discontents -- 22. Diplomatic missions -- 23. American interlude -- 24. Retreat from politics -- pt. 7. The path downward -- 25. The golden Twenties -- 26. Revenge of the Philistines -- 27. "And thus he left me" -- Conclusion: a world forever lost?
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"The life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a perspective on the tumultous 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 Austrian poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and - in his capacity as director of the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Weimar and vice-president of the German Artists League - serving as a spokesman and lightning rod for embattled modern art. In the aftermath of the First World War, in which he served as a soldier, propagandist, and secret agent, Kessler embarked on a public career as a committed internationalist and pacifist, a stance that led ultimately to his exile from Germany upon the Nazi seizure of power." "Making use of the recently discovered portions of Kessler's extensive diaries, among the most remarkable journals ever written, Laird Easton explains the reasons for this startling metamorphosis, showing for the first time the continuities between Kessler's prewar aestheticism and his postwar politics and highlighting his importance within the larger history of the rise of modern art and politics. This lively narrative, the first English-language biography of Harry Kessler, provides a portrait of the man who W.H. Arden called "a crown witness of our times.""--Jacket.
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Kessler, Harry,1868-1937.
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Diplomats-- Germany, Biography.
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Intellectuals-- Germany, Biography.
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Authors, German-- 20th century, Biography.
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Germany, Politics and government, 1918-1933.
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Germany, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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DD231.K4E27 2002
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