Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin
The Work Of Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction
Index
Background
Content Summary
Discussion
Whaaam!, Roy Lichtenstein, 1963
Retrospect, Keith Haring ,1989
Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, 1967
Walter Benjamin
(1892.7~1940.9, Germany)
1936, Age of Fascism
Content Summary
1. Preface
Mankind’s increased control over the world changing the notion of art.
Art should be distinguished from “a number of outmoded concepts, such as creativity and genius, eternal value and mystery” because “the uncontrolled application of these concepts would lead to a processing of data in the Fascist sense”.
2. Age of Mechanical Reproduction
With the development of photographic technology and the consequent prevalence of films not only revolutionized the technological reproduction, but also secured a place of its own in art
3. Loss of Aura

Technological reproduction decays the quality of the presence of the original production
4. Aura
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