The arcades : contemporary art and Walter Benjamin / convoluted by Jens Hoffmann, with contributions by Caroline A. Jones, Vito Manolo Roma and Kenneth Goldsmith

Additional Titles: Contemporary art and Walter Benjamin
Published: New York : The Jewish Museum ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Copyright Date: ©2017
Physical Description: 120 pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm)
Additional Creators: Hoffmann, Jens, 1974-, Jones, Caroline A., Roma, Vito Manolo, Goldsmith, Kenneth, Roma, Vito Manolo, and Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

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The Arcades Project (1927-40), the monumental unfinished work of cultural criticism by Walter Benjamin, is the German philosopher's effort to comprehend urban modernity through the 19th-century Parisian shopping arcade. The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin combines artworks with archival materials and poetic interventions to form an original, multifaceted response to this collagelike cultural text. Jens Hoffmann astutely pairs works by thirty-six well-known and emerging artists, including Lee Friedlander, Andreas Gursky, Pierre Huyghe, and Cindy Sherman, with the thirty-six "Convolutes," or themes, in Benjamin's text. Bound into the main volume is a graphic novelette, from the imagination of Vito Manolo Roma, of Benjamin's dream the night before he committed suicide while fleeing the Nazis. Scholarly essays by Hoffmann and Caroline A. Jones, texts selected by the poet Kenneth Goldsmith, reproductions of Benjamin's handwritten notes, and a list of the main Paris arcades discussed by him round out this extraordinary publication.

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9780300221992 (paperback)
0300221991 (paperback)

Note

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, March 17-August 6, 2017.
Graphic novelette "Benjamin's Dream" by Vito Manolo Roma is stapled to back cover.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-115).

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