Capital

New York, Capital of the 20th Century

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Art History, Conceptual, Individual Artist, Reference & Language, Reference, Quotations
Cover of the book Capital by Kenneth Goldsmith, Verso Books
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Kenneth Goldsmith ISBN: 9781784781576
Publisher: Verso Books Publication: March 8, 2016
Imprint: Verso Language: English
Author: Kenneth Goldsmith
ISBN: 9781784781576
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication: March 8, 2016
Imprint: Verso
Language: English

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

Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources—histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails—and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, Capital is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis.

It is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjamin’s unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, The Arcades Project, from nineteenth-century Paris to twentieth-century New York, bringing the streets and its inhabitants to life in categories such as “Sex,” “Central Park,” “Commodity,” “Loneliness,” “Gentrification,” “Advertising,” and “Mapplethorpe.”

Capital is a book designed to fascinate and to fail—for can a megalopolis truly ever be captured in words? Can a history, no matter how extensive, ever be comprehensive? Each reading of this book, and of New York, is a unique and impossible project.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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

Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources—histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails—and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, Capital is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis.

It is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjamin’s unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, The Arcades Project, from nineteenth-century Paris to twentieth-century New York, bringing the streets and its inhabitants to life in categories such as “Sex,” “Central Park,” “Commodity,” “Loneliness,” “Gentrification,” “Advertising,” and “Mapplethorpe.”

Capital is a book designed to fascinate and to fail—for can a megalopolis truly ever be captured in words? Can a history, no matter how extensive, ever be comprehensive? Each reading of this book, and of New York, is a unique and impossible project.

More books from Verso Books

Cover of the book Radical Happiness by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book Disaster Capitalism by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book State, Power, Socialism by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book The Age of Jihad by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book The Art of Cloning by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book The Passion of Bradley Manning by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book The Adventure of French Philosophy by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book A Writer of Our Time by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book In Praise of Disobedience by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book The Right to Have Rights by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book Democracy Against Capitalism by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book Reflections On Anti-Semitism by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book De Colores Means All of Us by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book Care by Kenneth Goldsmith
Cover of the book Land Grabbing by Kenneth Goldsmith
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy