Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century

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Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmithâ€™s thousand-page beautiful homage to New York City

Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sourcesâ€”histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emailsâ€”and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, Capital is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis.

It is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjaminâ€™s unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, The Arcades Project, from 19th-century Paris to 20th-century New York, bringing the streets to life in categories such as â€œSex,â€ â€œCommodity,â€ â€œDowntown,â€ â€œSubway,â€ and â€œMapplethorpe.â€

Capital is a book designed to fascinate and to failâ€”for can a megalopolis truly be written? Can a history, no matter how extensive, ever be comprehensive? Each reading of this book, and of New York, is a unique and impossible passage.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber BBC781569-USED
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2015-11-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781784781569

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	BBC781569-USED
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2015-11-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781784781569

Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century

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