Author: Benjamin, Walter
Hardback; Book; 46 Halftones
1098 pages
Published: November 1999
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067404326X

'The Arcades Project' is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history. Focusing on the arcades of 19th-century Paris, the glass-roofed rows of shops, Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in 36 categories with descriptive rubrics such as Fashion, Boredom or Prostitution.