Walter Benjamin's "The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Editorial MACAT LIBRARY
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- Editorial MACAT LIBRARY
- ISBN13 9781912284757
- ISBN10 1912284758
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 98
- Col.lecció A Macat Analysis #
- Any Edició 2018
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Paperback
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Filosofía (introduccions)Walter Benjamin's "The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Editorial MACAT LIBRARY
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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.
Dr Rachele Dini studied at Cambridge, King's College London and University College London. Much of her current work focuses on the representation of production and consumption in modern and contemporary Anglo-American fiction.