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082			_a944.361081 _bBEN
100			_aBenjamin, Walter
245			_aArcades project
260			_bBelknap Press, _c1999 _aCambridge :
300			_axiv, 1073 p. ; _bill., _c26 cm
365			_b40.00 _cUSD _d85.90
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aConceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress in 1940 when Benjamin fled the Nazis, only to find death on the Spanish border. The Arcades Project is his magnum opus: a new theory of history embodied in a new literary and philosophical historiography. With greater concreteness than had ever been achieved in historical narrative, Benjamin's text immerses the reader in the milieu of the Paris arcades - those precursors of today's shopping malls - during the period 1830-1870, when the modern industrial world was taking shape."--Book jacket. "Like the arcades themselves, Benjamin's master-work is a vast montage in which he quotes and reflects on hundreds of topics - fashion, boredom, the collector, advertising, prostitution, photography, the theory of progress. By excavating from printed sources a wealth of details about daily existence in nineteenth-century Paris, Benjamin brings to life a world of things - from luxury goods, building facades, posters, and clothing fashions to barricades, omnibuses, cafes, and exhibition halls.
650			_aArcades ,Architecture
650			_aMetropolitan life
650			_aParis
650			_aFashion
650			_aCatacombs
650			_aIron constructions
650			_aExhibition
650			_aInterior design
650			_a Thedor Adorno
650			_a Painting
650			_aCollage
650			_aPhotography
650			_aSocial movements
650			_aStock exchange
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