Walter Benjamin's The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (The Macat Library)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 112 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780429939754
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781912284894, 9781912284757, 9781912284757, 9781912304042, 9781912304042, 9781912284894, 9781912284757, 9781912284757, 9781912304042, 9781912304042, 9781912284894, 9781912284757, 9781912304042
- Publisher:
- Macat Library
- Date of Addition:
- 04/18/19
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.