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Capital

New York, Capital of the 20th Century

Kenneth Goldsmith
Livre broché | Anglais
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Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith's thousand-page homage to New York City

Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources--histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails--and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, Capital is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis.

It is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, The Arcades Project, from nineteenth-century Paris to twentieth-century New York, bringing the streets and its inhabitants to life in categories such as "Sex," "Central Park," "Commodity," "Loneliness," "Gentrification," "Advertising," and "Mapplethorpe."

Capital is a book designed to fascinate and to fail--for can a megalopolis truly ever be captured in words? Can a history, no matter how extensive, ever be comprehensive? Each reading of this book, and of New York, is a unique and impossible project.

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Nombre de pages :
928
Langue:
Anglais

Caractéristiques

EAN:
9781784781590
Date de parution :
17-05-16
Format:
Livre broché
Format numérique:
Trade paperback (VS)
Dimensions :
175 mm x 249 mm
Poids :
1542 g

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