{"product_id":"capital-new-york-capital-of-the-20th-century-9781784781590","title":"Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kenneth Goldsmith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Verso\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists' Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith's thousand-page homage to New York City\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere 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, \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, \u003ci\u003eThe Arcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46319625076887,"sku":"9781784781590","price":4376.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781784781590.webp?v=1767713408","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/capital-new-york-capital-of-the-20th-century-9781784781590","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}