Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century Contributor(s): Goldsmith, Kenneth (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784781592 ISBN-13: 9781784781590 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $40.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Artists' Books - Reference | Quotations - Art | Conceptual |
Dewey: 974.71 |
Physical Information: 2" H x 6.9" W x 9.8" (3.40 lbs) 928 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith's thousand-page 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 sources--histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails--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 Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, The Arcades Project, from nineteenth-century Paris to twentieth-century New York, bringing the streets and its inhabitants to life in categories such as "Sex," "Central Park," "Commodity," "Loneliness," "Gentrification," "Advertising," and "Mapplethorpe." Capital is a book designed to fascinate and to fail--for can a megalopolis truly ever be captured in words? Can a history, no matter how extensive, ever be comprehensive? Each reading of this book, and of New York, is a unique and impossible project. |