An Analysis Of Walter Benjamin S The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction
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An Analysis of Walter Benjamin s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Author | : Rachele Dini |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2018-02-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780429939952 |
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any active visual or tactile engagement, the work of art becomes an object of passive contemplation and a potential tool of oppression. Benjamin argues that technology has fundamentally altered the way art is experienced. Potentially open to interpretation and accessible to many, art in the age of mechanical reproduction has the potential to be mobilized for radical purposes. While ostensibly addressing the artistic consequences of technical reproducibility on art, Benjamin also addresses the wider political consequences of this shift.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Author | : Walter Benjamin |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2008-08-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780141963426 |
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One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Illuminations
Author | : Walter Benjamin |
Publsiher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 1968-10-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780547540658 |
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Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century’s most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode; and his theses on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin’s life in a dark historical era. Leon Wieseltier’s preface explores Benjamin’s continued relevance for our times. Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction An Influential Essay of Cultural Criticism The History and Theory of Art Hardcover
Author | : Walter Benjamin,Harry Zohn |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2018-08-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 035904638X |
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Walter Benjamin discusses whether art is diminished by the modern culture of mass replication, arriving at the conclusion that the aura or soul of an artwork is indeed removed by duplication. In an essay critical of modern fashion and manufacture, Benjamin decries how new technology affects art. The notion of fine arts is threatened by an absence of scarcity; an affair which diminishes the authenticity and essence of the artist's work. Though the process of art replication dates to classical antiquity, only the modern era allows for a mass quantity of prints or mass production. Given that the unique aura of an artist's work, and the reaction it provokes in those who see it, is diminished, Benjamin posits that artwork is much more political in significance. The style of modern propaganda, of the use of art for the purpose of generating raw emotion or arousing belief, is likely to become more prevalent versus the old-fashioned production of simpler beauty or meaning in a cultural or religious context.
Walter Benjamin and Art
Author | : Andrew Benjamin |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2005-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781847144546 |
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Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamin's work; the question of historical connection; the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume include major Benjamin commentators, whose work has very much defined the reception of the essay, and leading philosophers, historians and aesthetician, whose approaches open up new areas of interest and relevance.
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media
Author | : Walter Benjamin |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2008-05-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0674024451 |
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A series of influential essays on the visual arts that were made possible by machines, and the implications for the future of culture.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction An Influential Essay of Cultural Criticism The History and Theory of Art
Author | : Walter Benjamin,Harry Zohn |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2018-08-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0359046398 |
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Walter Benjamin discusses whether art is diminished by the modern culture of mass replication, arriving at the conclusion that the aura or soul of an artwork is indeed removed by duplication. In an essay critical of modern fashion and manufacture, Benjamin decries how new technology affects art. The notion of fine arts is threatened by an absence of scarcity; an affair which diminishes the authenticity and essence of the artist's work. Though the process of art replication dates to classical antiquity, only the modern era allows for a mass quantity of prints or mass production. Given that the unique aura of an artist's work, and the reaction it provokes in those who see it, is diminished, Benjamin posits that artwork is much more political in significance. The style of modern propaganda, of the use of art for the purpose of generating raw emotion or arousing belief, is likely to become more prevalent versus the old-fashioned production of simpler beauty or meaning in a cultural or religious context.
Walter Benjamin
Author | : David S. Ferris |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804725691 |
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This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media. In an introductory essay, David S. Ferris discusses the problem of history, aura, and resistance in Benjamins later work and in its reception. Samuel Weber, in a reading of Benjamins most influential essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, analyzes the status of the image and technology in Benjamins own terms and in the shadow of Heidegger. Rodolphe Gasché devotes himself to an analysis of Benjamins dissertation on the German Romantics, providing a valuable guide to a major text that has yet to appear in English translation.