Beschreibung:
Svetlana Alpers is Professor Emerita, History of Art, at the University of California, Berkeley, and visiting scholar at the Department of Fine Arts, New York University. She divides her time between New York City and France.
The renowned art historian presents her portraits of sights she saw out of her loft in New York.
In solving the question of her father's place and date of birth, the author reconstructs the life of her Russian grandfather in a distant and tumultuous Europe of a century ago.