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An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Hardcover)
Series: The 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.
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