WALTER BENJAMIN/ PARIS ARCADES

In 1927, on the occasion of a several-months-long visit to Paris, Walter Benjamin began taking notes on the Parisian Arcades for his most ambitious book project, which remained unfinished because of the repeatedly interrupted work process and, ultimately, his suic ide in Portbou in 1940 when fleeing the German occupation. It was published posthumously as The Arcades Project. The fragments inclu ded, among others, the essay The Artwork in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (193539). With her introduction to a selection of these handwr...[Read more]