Main entry:

Walter Benjamins Archive. English.

Title & Author:

Walter Benjamin's Archive : images, texts, signs / translated by Esther Leslie ; edited by Ursula Marx, Gudrun Schwarz, Michael Schwarz, Erdmut Wizisla ; preface by Erdmut Wizisla.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2007
©2007

Description:

310 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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 (pages 309-310).
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.
Translated from the German.

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. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, 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 this way, Benjamin laid the groundwork for the salvaging of his own legacy. Intricate and intimate, Walter Benjamin’s Archive leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author." - Provided by publisher

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781844671960
1844671968

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Archives Exhibitions.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Authors, German 20th century Exhibitions.
Écrivains allemands 20e siècle Expositions.
Authors, German
Privatarkiv Tyskland 1900-talert.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Leslie, Esther, 1964- translator.
Marx, Ursula, editor.
Schwarz, Gudrun, editor
Schwarz, Michael (Archivist), editor.
Wizisla, Erdmut, 1958- editor, writer of preface.
Walter Benjamin Archiv.
Verso (Firm : London, England), publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255567
Call No.: BIB 185795
Status: Available