ARTH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Arcades Project, Surrealism, Art History
11 Dec 2017
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The arcades project as a model for writing (or doing) art history. Jew in germany, friends with jewish intellectuals in germany. Germany you own us a million of dollars. 1933 hitler appears as leader, thus emergence of national socialist party: walter benjamin writes in germany of the brink of war and national socialism. Arcades project: unfinished project of german literary critic walter benjamin, written between 1927 and 1940, an enormous collection of writings on the city life of paris in the 19th century, it was especially concerned with paris" iron-and-glass covered. arcades (known in french as the passages couverts de paris). 1: benjamin"s project, which many scholars believe might have become one of the great texts of 20th-century cultural criticism, was never completed due to his death under uncertain circumstances on the french-spanish border in. Arcades (passages: represent 19th century paris modernity, paris" iron-and-glass covered.
