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

Title & Author:

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]

Description:

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

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).

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.

ISBN:

9780300221992 (paperback)
0300221991 (paperback)

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Passagen-Werk Exhibitions.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Criticism and interpretation Exhibitions.
Benjamin, Walter, Criticism and interpretation.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
Passagen-Werk (Benjamin, Walter)
Art, Modern 21st century Exhibitions.
Art 21e siècle Expositions.
20.19 art and society: other.
Art, Modern Exhibitions. 21st century.
Art and Design.
Art, Modern.
Kunst

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Hoffmann, Jens, 1974- curator. author.
Jones, Caroline A., author.
Roma, Vito Manolo, illustrator.
Goldsmith, Kenneth. editor.
Roma, Vito Manolo Benjamin's dream
Hoffmann, Jens, 1974- curator, author.
Jones, Caroline A. author.
Goldsmith, Kenneth editor.
Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), Issuing body, host institution.
Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.) issuing body, host institution.

Contemporary art and Walter Benjamin

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294801
Call No.: BIB 240668
Status: Available

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