Begun in 1928, contracted as a book in 1930, and unfinished when he died in 1940, The Arcades Project is a hydra-headed “exploration of the soul of the commodity.” Benjamin burrows through ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, faced with imminent deportation to a concentration camp, on September 27, 1940, Benjamin overdosed on morphine. His posthumously published magnum opus “The Arcades Project” serves as ...

As Benjamin chronicles ... arguably, about The Arcades Project. (An exhibit with similar subject matter currently at the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia seems to be taking this approach.) ...

He named it Arcades Project after German author Walter Benjamin’s collection of unfinished essays by the same title. The author used literary collage techniques to chronicle Paris city living ...

bringing a fully representative set of texts by German critic Benjamin (1892–1940) into English; volume 4 joins the first three installments along with The Arcades Project, Theodor Wiesengrund ...

bringing a fully representative set of texts by German critic Benjamin (1892–1940) into English; volume 4 joins the first three installments along with The Arcades Project, Benjamin's massive ...

and the work of Walter Benjamin, a cultural critic and philosopher who died in the opening days of World War II, having spent over a decade and a half on his magnum opus, “The Arcades Project ...