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Les fleurs américaines
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Réalisée avec le Museum of American Art (MoAA), Berlin et le Salon de Fleurus, New York, l'exposition Les fleurs américaines présentée au Frac Île-de-France / Le Plateau racontait, par le biais de copies anonymes, les origines de l'écriture du récit connu sous le nom d'histoire de l'art moderne, pour questionner les critères d'authenticité, d'originalité et d'unicité des(...)
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Les fleurs américaines
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Réalisée avec le Museum of American Art (MoAA), Berlin et le Salon de Fleurus, New York, l'exposition Les fleurs américaines présentée au Frac Île-de-France / Le Plateau racontait, par le biais de copies anonymes, les origines de l'écriture du récit connu sous le nom d'histoire de l'art moderne, pour questionner les critères d'authenticité, d'originalité et d'unicité des œuvres et des artistes qui régissent toujours le monde de l'art aujourd'hui. Premier ouvrage en français consacré aux activités du MoAA et du Salon de Fleurus, ce catalogue revient sur les différentes parties de l'exposition présentée au Plateau et en prolonge les enjeux à travers un ensemble de sources iconographiques variées et de textes empruntant différents registres.
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On photography
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Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay A Short History of Photography is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other(...)
On photography
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Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay A Short History of Photography is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other writings by Benjamin, some of them presented in English for the first time. Translator and editor Esther Leslie sets Benjamin’s work in context with prefaces to each piece and contributes a substantial introduction that considers Benjamin’s engagement with photography in all its forms, including early commercial studio photography, the uses of photography in science, and much more
Theory of Photography
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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,(...)
Walter Benjamin's Archive: images, texts, signs
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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. This publication leads readers to the heart of his intellectual world, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of its author.
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Écrits radiophoniques
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L'espace radiophonique, non comme outil de vulgarisation mais pour l'intérêt qu'il suscite auprès d'un large public, devient pour Benjamin le lieu par excellence d'application pratique de ses réflexions sur les moyens de reproductibilité technique et la popularisation de la culture. Il esquisse ici une théorie de la radio, comme le montre un ensemble de lettres et de(...)
Écrits radiophoniques
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L'espace radiophonique, non comme outil de vulgarisation mais pour l'intérêt qu'il suscite auprès d'un large public, devient pour Benjamin le lieu par excellence d'application pratique de ses réflexions sur les moyens de reproductibilité technique et la popularisation de la culture. Il esquisse ici une théorie de la radio, comme le montre un ensemble de lettres et de textes inédits en français qui viennent compléter cette édition. Un nouveau visage de Walter Benjamin, ou plutôt une voix nouvelle, se fait ici entendre. Avec humour, un talent incontestable de metteur en scène et une verve de dialoguiste, Walter Benjamin montre que la radio est un outil, littéraire, pédagogique et culturel, d'exception.
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Radio Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in English. This eclectic(...)
Radio Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, which appear here for the first time in English. This eclectic collection demonstrates the range of Benjamin’s thinking and his enthusiasm for popular sensibilities.
Critical Theory
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Penser, c'est ressentir. Et c'est à une expérience intime, intuitive, des sens et des formes, de l'espace et du monde que nous invite Walter Benjamin dans cet essai de 1939 qui reste son texte le plus populaire. Le philosophe y montre comment l'invention de la photographie et surtout celle du cinéma, en rendant possible la reproduction massive des oeuvres d'art, ont(...)
L'oeuvre d'art à l'époque de sa reproductibilité technique
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Penser, c'est ressentir. Et c'est à une expérience intime, intuitive, des sens et des formes, de l'espace et du monde que nous invite Walter Benjamin dans cet essai de 1939 qui reste son texte le plus populaire. Le philosophe y montre comment l'invention de la photographie et surtout celle du cinéma, en rendant possible la reproduction massive des oeuvres d'art, ont précipité le "déclin de l'aura", formule désormais célèbre pour un concept devenu central dans l'histoire de l'art et la philosophie esthétique, l'aura d'une oeuvre étant l'effet de sa présence unique, liée à un lieu précis et inscrite dans l'histoire.
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One-way street
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One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature?by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most(...)
One-way street
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One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature?by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces such as “On the Concept of History” and The Arcades Project. Composed of sixty short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, One-Way Street evokes a dense cityscape of shops, cafes, and apartments, alive with the hubbub of social interactions and papered over with public inscriptions of all kinds: advertisements, signs, posters, slogans. Benjamin avoids all semblance of linear narrative, enticing readers with a seemingly random sequence of aphorisms, reminiscences, jokes, off-the-cuff observations, dreamlike fantasias, serious philosophical inquiries, apparently unserious philosophical parodies, and trenchant political commentaries. Providing remarkable insight into the occluded meanings of everyday things, Benjamin time and again proves himself the unrivalled interpreter of what he called “the soul of the commodity.” Despite the diversity of its individual sections, Benjamin’s text is far from formless. Drawing on the avant-garde aesthetics of Dada, Constructivism, and Surrealism, its unusual construction implies a practice of reading that cannot be reduced to simple formulas. Still refractory, still radical, One-Way Street is a work in perpetual progress.
Critical Theory
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'The Storyteller' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, 'One-Way Street' and 'The Arcades Project'. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms,(...)
The storyteller: tales out of loneliness
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'The Storyteller' gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, 'One-Way Street' and 'The Arcades Project'. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational and hallucinatory realms, celebrate the importance of games, and delve into the peculiar relationship between gambling and fortune-telling, and explore the themes that defined Benjamin. The novellas, fables, histories, aphorisms, parables and riddles in this collection are brought to life by the playful imagery of the modernist artist and Bauhaus figure Paul Klee.
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