| Description |
vii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: A Time for Revision -- 1. Walter Benjamin's Angel of History, or the Transfiguration of the Revolutionary into the Historian -- 2. Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin Emerges from a Munich Underpass -- 3. Picasso's Guernica Returns to Germany -- 4. A Comic Strip about the Communist Reversal of History and Its Attendant Neuroses -- 5. Kafka 007 -- Conclusion: Projection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-173) and index |
| Subject |
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
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Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948.
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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
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Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973.
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Communism and art.
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Socialism and art.
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| LC no. |
98041461 |
| ISBN |
0226893553 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226893561 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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