"The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise... The storm propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress." - Walter Benjamin
How Klee’s ‘angel of history’ took flightKlee’s famous angel appears tossed by the rough winds of history – and the drawing itself has been blown about the world by tragic events. Jason Farago tells the story of an icon.www.bbc.com