Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century

Kenneth Goldsmith

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 928

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Verso

Release: November 10, 2015

ISBN: 1784781568

ISBN 13: 9781784781569

Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century

Kenneth Goldsmith

3.8/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 928

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Verso

Release: November 10, 2015

ISBN: 1784781568

ISBN 13: 9781784781569

More books from Kenneth Goldsmith

Wasting Time on the Internet

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age

3.7/5 ( ratings)

I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Interviews

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Fidget

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Soliloquy

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of Ubuweb

4.3/5 ( ratings)

No Internet, No Art

Dustin Yellin: Heavy Water

6799

1.6/5 ( ratings)

The Ideal Lecture (In memory of David Antin)

1.6/5 ( ratings)

Interviews mit Andy Warhol

1.6/5 ( ratings)

Andy Warhol. Entrevistas.

1.6/5 ( ratings)

Kenneth Goldsmith: Against Translation: Displacement Is the New Translation

1.6/5 ( ratings)

The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin

1.6/5 ( ratings)

BOMB 120

1.6/5 ( ratings)

The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century

1.6/5 ( ratings)

Getting Inside Simon Morris' Head: Joe Hale

1.6/5 ( ratings)

Sports

1.6/5 ( ratings)

No. 111 2/7/93-10.20.96

1.6/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?