Entrée principale:

Walter Benjamins Archive. English.

Titre et auteur:

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

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 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.

Résumé:

Intricate and intimate, produced in association with the Benjamin Archive, this book leads right into the core of Walter Benjamin's work, yielding a rich and detailed portrait of the author.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781844671960
1844671968

Sujet:

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.

Classification/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Vedettes secondaires:

Leslie, Esther, 1964- translator.
Marx, Ursula, editor.
Walter Benjamin Archiv.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 255567
Cote: BIB 185795
Statut: Disponible