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Author:

Walter Benjamins Archive. English

Title:

Walter Benjamin's Archive : images, texts, signs / translated by Esther Leslie ; edited by Ursula Marx ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Verso,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

310 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter,--1892-1940--Exhibitions.--Exhibitions.
Authors, German--20th century--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Leslie, Esther.
Marx, Ursula.
Walter Benjamin Archiv.

Notes:

Original German edition published to coincide with exhibition held October 3 to November 19 2006 at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-310).

Contents:

1. Tree of conscientiousness: Benjamin as archivist -- 2. Scrappy paperwork: collecting and dispersal -- 3. From small to smallest details: micrographies -- 4. Physiognomy of the thingworld: Russian toys -- 5. Opinions et pensées: his son's words and turns of phrase -- 6. Daintiest quarters: notebooks -- 7. Travel scenes: picture postcards -- 8. A bow being bent: composing, building, weaving -- 9. Constellations: graphic forms -- 10. Rag picking: the Arcades Project -- 11. Past turned space: arcades and interiors -- 12. Hard nuts to crack: riddles, brainteasers, word games -- 13. Sibyls: mosaics in Siena.

ISBN:

1844671968
9781844671960

LCCN:

2008295306

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)