Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century - Rilegato

Goldsmith, Kenneth

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ISBN 10: 1784781568 ISBN 13: 9781784781569

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2015

Riassunto

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand page beautiful homage to New York City

Renowned poet and conceptual artist Kenneth Goldsmith collects a massive assortment of quotations about New York City in the twentieth century. This kaleidoscopic montage from hundreds of sources is a literary adoration of New York as the capital of the world, and was inspired by Walter Benjamin’s unfinished masterpiece, The Arcades Project, a compendium of quotations about nineteenth-century Paris.

Goldsmith brings together an immense archive of quotations about modern New York from novels, histories, newspapers, memoirs, letters, advertisements and more unlikely sources, all organized into lyrical and philosophical categories. The result is a magisterial and poetic history of New York in the twentieth century, and an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind book of experimental literature.

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Recensione:

Goldsmith's material, unmistakably real, refuses to remain in a literary frame. --Bookslut

A skyscraper of words literary, journalistic, poetic, and prosaic to celebrate and chronicle teeming Gotham. The title alludes to Walter Benjamin, and the conceit is one to do him proud ... there is an embarrassment of riches here. --Kirkus Reviews

L'autore:

Kenneth Goldsmith is the founding editor of UbuWeb, teaches Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and is Senior Editor of PennSound. He was an artist and sculptor for many years before taking up conceptual poetry. He has since published ten books of poetry and is the author of a book of essays, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in a Digital Age.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1784781568
• ISBN 13: 9781784781569
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 913