Walter Benjamin – Recent Writings

Uncommon 8vo hardcover in tan cloth with Mondrian cover, 210 pages. Discoloration to front cover near base; spine-titling partially rubbed out but legible. Conceived by an anthropologist of art and culture as a collection of recent texts by Walter Benjamin written between 1986 and the present, this book includes interviews by Beti Zerovc, Maxine Kopsa and Milo Rau as well as lectures including “Lenin and Coca-Cola,” “The Unmaking of Art” and “The Making of Americans.” From an “about the author” note on the rear pastedown: “…In 1986, many years after his tragic death — Walter Benjamin reappeared in public with the lecture Mondrian ’63-’96, organized by the Marxist Center in Ljubljana…”