Just finished Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Concept of History" by Michael Lowy and this drawing sums up how I feel about it.... It's one of those mysterious texts that seems full of meaning, but really nobody knows what the hell Benjamin was on about. I'm now wrestling with Volume 1 of his collected writings, but it's very hard going.
Pen and ink with wash on Moleskine 21cm x 13cm. Click to enlarge.
5 comments:
I think you'll enjoy Benjamin's work. I've read his Arcades Project. It is fascinating. And I think his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is deep and thought provoking.
Did something, perhaps, resonate in there?
I feel like that all the time. I am sure its because of the company I keep and the places I visit.
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wow...a mobile, SEVERAL mobiles in your head....bravo, ellis!
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