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Pages: 283
Authors: Margaret Cohen
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-03-06 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new rea
Walter Benjamin's Grave
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Michael Taussig
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-13 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be deni
On Hashish
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Walter Benjamin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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On Hashish' is Walter Benjamin's posthumous collection of writings, providing a unique and intimate portrait of the man himself, of his experiences of hashish,
Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: John McCole
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-06 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Few modern thinkers have been as convinced of the necessity of recovering the past in order to redeem the present as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Benjamin at on
Art of the Avant-gardes
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Professor and Head of Art History Steve Edwards
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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02 This gorgeous book presents and discusses the oils, works on paper, and other artistic creations of William Holman Hunt, one of the three major artistic tale