Walter Benjamin's Archive : images, texts, signs /
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| Uniform title: | Walter Benjamins Archive. English. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Verso, 2007. |
| Description: | 310 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6651486 |
| Summary: | The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, art and dreams. It comprises myriad smaller archives, in which Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artefacts, assortments of images, texts and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas and hopes, each of which was enthusiastically logged, systematized and analyzed by their author. In them, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy.<br> <br> This unique book, produced in association with the Benjamin Archive, delves into these archives. They include carefully laid-out manuscripts; photograps of a home with luxurious furniture, arcades, Russian toys; picture postcards from Tuscany and the Balearics; meticulous and unconventional registers, card indexes and catalogs; notebooks, in which every single square centimeter is covered; a collation of his son's first words and sentences; riddles and enigmatic Sibyls. Everything here is subtly interlinked with everything else.<br> <br> Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin's Archive leads right into the core of his work, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author. |
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| Item Description: | Original German edition published to coincide with exhibition held October 3 to November 19 2006 at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. |
| Physical Description: | 310 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-310). |
| ISBN: | 9781844671960 1844671968 |
