Benjamin’s gargantuan Arcades Project brims with philosophical propositions, poetic digressions, lyrical aphorisms, and experimental theses. by Tim Keane July 15, 2017 July 23, 2017.

Most magnificently, Harvard published more than a decade ago, and to great acclaim, Benjamin’s Arcades Project, the archaeology of 19th-century Paris that defies categorization and which ...

The project, like Benjamin’s, is hugely ambitious and rather esoteric, but almost surprisingly, it never runs off the rails to become academic, pretentious or dull.

Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” is an undergraduate art-history staple, but true Benjaminiacs consider his massive, unfinished “Arcades Project” to be ...

Arcades Project C. Walter Benjamin, Author, Rolf Tiedemann, Editor, Howard Eiland, Translator Belknap Press $62 (1088p) ISBN 978-0-674-04326-8.

Benjamin once described “The Arcades Project” as his “dialectical fairy tale” — a study of Parisian arcades, glass-roofed corridors he regarded as capitalist illusion. He started the ...

The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin will be appropriately multifaceted, with artworks “representing the subjects of each of the book’s thirty-six chapters,” architectural ...

Benjamin is best known for his essay, ... “The Arcades Project,” which I’m not suggesting everyone run out and read (it’s over 1,000 pages with footnotes), ...