Foreign Affairs
Why Germany of all places? A hundred years ago there were many good reasons for English writers to cross the Channel and travel along the Rhine, spend a few weeks in Berlin, tour the island of ...
moreWolfgang Kemp
Wolfgang Kemp, born in 1946 in Frankfurt, is professor of art history at Hamburg University. His previous publications at Hanser: John Ruskin (Leben und Werk. 1819 - 1983), and Vertrauliche Berichte über den Verkauf einer Kommode und andere Kunstgeschichten (2002).
Confidential Report on the Sale of a Bureau and Other Stories about Art
If you have always suspected that studios, galleries and museums are meeting places for a disproportionate number of strange people, Wolfgang Kemp has written the perfect book for you. His art ...
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The Desire of My Eyes
This "tour de force of analysis" (Joel Agee) examines the life and work of the prolific, visionary writer, painter and critic. Kemp finds in Ruskin's life -- which spanned the same years as Queen ...
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