ISBN:
9780300221992
Language:
English
Pages:
120 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2017
Keywords:
Benjamin, Walter
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Ausstellung
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Take a walk through Walter Benjamin's mind in our new exhibition presenting contemporary photography, video, sculpture, and painting seen through the lens of the influential German Jewish philosopher’s magnum opus The Arcades Project. See artworks by Walead Beshty, Andrea Bowers, Chris Burden, Lee Friedlander, Andreas Gursky, Mike Kelley, Collier Schorr, Cindy Sherman, and more, annotated with appropriated texts by poet Kenneth Goldsmith.
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