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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Caroline A., author.

Contributor:

Hoffmann, Jens, 1974- curator, author.

Roma, Vito Manolo, illustrator.

Goldsmith, Kenneth, editor.

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), Issuing body, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Passagen-Werk--Exhibitions.

Benjamin, Walter.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940--Criticism and interpretation--Exhibitions.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art, Modern.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

120 pages (some folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm)

Other Title:

Contemporary art and Walter Benjamin

Place of Publication:

New York : Jewish Museum ; New Haven : Yale University Press [2017]

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.

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-115).

Contains:

Container of: Roma, Vito Manolo. Benjamin's dream.

ISBN:

9780300221992

0300221991

OCLC:

969981543