Arcades
Jens Hoffmann
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Arcades
by Jens Hoffmann, Caroline A. Jones, Kenneth Goldsmith
Published
2017
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pages
136
ISBN-13
9780300221992
Description
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.
Subjects
Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
Berlin childhood around 1900
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin.
Body-And Image-Space
Walter Benjamin
Frequently Asked Questions
How many pages are in Arcades?
This edition of Arcades has approximately 136 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
How long does it take to read Arcades?
For most readers, Arcades typically takes between 2h 50m and 1h 53m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 34,000 words and common reading speeds.
Here's a detailed breakdown: • Continuous reading at 250 WPM: approximately 2h 16m of focused reading • Casual reading (30 minutes/day): you could finish in roughly 5 days • Estimated word count: 34,000 words
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The estimated word count for Arcades is approximately 34,000 words. This figure is calculated using industry-standard methods that consider genre-specific word density patterns, typical formatting and layout characteristics, and standard words-per-page ratios for published books.
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Who is the author of Arcades?
Arcades was written by Jens Hoffmann, Caroline A. Jones, Kenneth Goldsmith.
When was Arcades published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 2017. The original work may have been published on a different date.