Title & Author:

Benjamin's blind spot : Walter Benjamin and the premature death of aura : with the Manual of lost ideas / edited by Lise Patt.

Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : Institute of Cultural Inquiry, ©2001.

Description:

xvi, 135 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

ICI field notes ; 5

Notes:
Introduction to The Manual of Lost Ideas / MLI research team -- On blind spots / Lise Patt -- Benjamin's aura and the broken heart of modernity / Carsten Strathausen -- Angels / Marquard Smith -- Adorno and the excessive politics of aura / Gerhard Richter -- The survival of the aura : Benjamin's desire / Petra Kuppers -- In the darkness : after the Rausch of aura / Vance Bell -- Angelic states : photographs / by Connie Samaras -- "Mystery train" and mystery : the survival of the aura in early Elvis / David S. Gross -- Benjamin's aura : Stevens's description without place / Rajeev S. Patke -- Rethinking aura through temporality : Benjamin and "industrial" otherness / Erich Hertz -- The impossibility of duality : the vision of Jackson Pollock / Colin Rhodes -- Mapping the lost idea / Martin Gantman -- Matchbox template.

ISBN:

1889917044 (pbk.)
9781889917047 (pbk.)

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Influence.
Arts Experimental methods.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Arts Méthodes expérimentales.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Added entries:

Patt, Lise.
Institute of Cultural Inquiry.
Manual of lost ideas.
ICI field notes ; 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266358
Call No.: BIB 198115
Status: Available