Format:
120 Seiten
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1 eingeklebtes Comic-Heft (16 ungezählte Seiten)
ISBN:
9780300221992
Content:
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.00Exhibition: The Jewish Museum, New York, USA (17.03-06.08.2017)
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Participating Artists: Erica Baum Walead Beshty Milena Bonilla Andrea Bowers Nicholas Buffon Chris Burden Haris Epaminonda and Daniel Gustav Cramer Simon Evans Walker Evans Claire Fontaine Lee Friedlander Rodney Graham Andreas Gursky Raymond Hains Pierre Huyghe Voluspa Jarpa Jesper Just Sanya Kantarovsky Mike Kelley Tim Lee Jorge Macchi Adam Pendleton Martín Ramírez Bill Rauhauser Mary Reid Kelley Ry Rocklen Markus Schinwald Collier Schorr Cindy Sherman Taryn Simon Joel Sternfeld Mungo Thomson Timm Ulrichs Guido van der Werve James Welling Cerith Wyn Evans
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Benjamin's dream
Language:
English
Keywords:
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940 Das Passagen-Werk
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Rezeption
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Kunst
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Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Hoffmann, Jens 1974-
Author information:
Goldsmith, Kenneth 1961-
