#Walter benjamin unpacking my library full#
Full of delicious surprises, it’s an experience to treasure.”-Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children “This beautiful and riveting volume illuminates the interior lives and minds of ten great artists. This will delight lovers of printed matter, habitual browsers, and those who always check out a new acquaintance’s bookshelves first.”-Lisa Peet, Library Journal “This small and inviting book offers insight, pleasure, and just plain fun.”-Andrea Kirsh, Artblog “The photos-wide shots and shelfies-offer a peek into the libraries of ten contemporary artists and are accompanied by engaging interviews.”-Rebecca Rego Barry, Fine Books and Collections Lavish photographic surveys accompany enjoyable interviews with the artists, who are asked to select 10 favorites from collections that vary in scope from cherished childhood books to working archives.”-Ernest Hilbert, Wall Street Journal The interviews are accompanied by “top ten” reading lists assembled by each artist, an introduction by Jo Steffens, and Marcel Proust’s seminal essay “On Reading.” Photographs of each artist’s bookshelves present an evocative glimpse of personal taste, of well-loved and rare volumes, and of the individual touches that make a bookshelf one’s own. This is a book about books, but it even more importantly highlights the role of literature in shaping an artist’s self-presentation and persona. Through engaging interviews, the artists discuss the necessity of reading and the meaning of books in their lives and careers.
Artists and Their Books showcases the personal libraries of ten important contemporary artists based in the United States (Mark Dion, Theaster Gates, Wangechi Mutu, Ed Ruscha, and Carrie Mae Weems), Canada (Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller), and the United Kingdom (Billy Childish, Tracey Emin, and Martin Parr). Benjamin.) This post is about a single collection: mine, which is. Although this collecting spirit is something that interests me greatly, it is not what this post is about. Although Benjamins essay is nominally about his personal library, its really about the art, the passion, the chaos of collecting. As the author recently moved to Manhattan, he fulfilled a lifelong dream: to write his own version of Walter Benjamin’s Unpacking My Library while reorganizing his 10,000 volumes.
#Walter benjamin unpacking my library series#
A captivating tour of the bookshelves of ten leading artists, exploring the intricate connections between reading, artistic practice, and identity Taking its inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s seminal 1931 essay, the Unpacking My Library series charts a spirited exploration of the reading and book collecting practices of today’s leading thinkers. Walter Benjamin, 'Unpacking My Library,' 1931.
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