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Walter Benjamin's The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Walter Benjamin's The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

By Rachele Dini

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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. Potenti...Show more

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9781912304042

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Macat International Limited

Published year

2018

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Walter Benjamin's The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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Hardcover

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