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The arcades : contemporary art and Walter Benjamin

Title
The arcades : contemporary art and Walter Benjamin / convoluted by Jens Hoffmann, with contributions by Caroline A. Jones, Vito Manolo Roma and Kenneth Goldsmith.
Publication
  • New York : The Jewish Museum ; New Haven : Yale University Press [2017].
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Hoffmann, Jens, 1974-
  • Jones, Caroline A.
  • Roma, Vito Manolo
  • Goldsmith, Kenneth
  • Roma, Vito Manolo
  • Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), Issuing body, host institution
Description
120 pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color); 28 cm +
Summary
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.
Alternative Title
Contemporary art and Walter Benjamin
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
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).
Call Number
JQF 17-651
ISBN
  • 9780300221992
  • 0300221991
LCCN
2016946107
OCLC
969981543
Title
The arcades : contemporary art and Walter Benjamin / convoluted by Jens Hoffmann, with contributions by Caroline A. Jones, Vito Manolo Roma and Kenneth Goldsmith.
Publisher
New York : The Jewish Museum ; New Haven : Yale University Press [2017].
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-115).
Added Author
Hoffmann, Jens, 1974- curator, author.
Jones, Caroline A., author.
Roma, Vito Manolo, illustrator.
Goldsmith, Kenneth, editor.
Container of (work): Roma, Vito Manolo. Benjamin's dream.
Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), Issuing body, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 17-651
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