‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’: how has the reproduction of images changed the development of art? Identify three works of your choice to support your argument. This essay will start from Walter Benjamin’s consideration about the impact of mechanical reproduction of art as revolutionizing its social function and will describe the noticeable validity of his theory in the contemporary world. By introducing three artworks that belong to different historical periods‚ namely
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Assignment #2 Walter Benjamin’s‚ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Walter Benjamin is an internationally renowned philosopher and a critical theorist from the early 20th century. He has written many diverse and intellectual pieces that were strongly influenced by the social‚ political and economic movement at the time. Benjamin’s thoughts and research is still fresh and recently obtained its due. The essay‚ “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction‚” is a major
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Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Art Paul Mattick Jr Theory‚ Culture & Society (SAGE‚ London‚ Newbury Park and New Delhi)‚ Vol.10 (1993)‚ 127-147 The enormous impact of Waller Benjamin ’s famous essay on ’The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction ’ is largely due to his claim that photography has ’transformed the entire nature of art‚ destroying its semblance of autonomy in relation to social and political processes‚ and liquidating ’the traditional value of thc cultural
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the short essay‚ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction‚ written by Walter Benjamin (1936) and what he means by this ‘aura’ of uniqueness. I will provide a visual example to explain this concept. This discussion will relate to the notion of distance‚ and also how Benjamin (1936) explains this in the context of mass perception through reproductive media. According to Walter Benjamin (1936:793) the aura of an artwork is its unique existence in time and space. Benjamin (1936:793) goes on
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------------------------------------------------- Unit 7. ------------------------------------------------- Dada Vs. Walter Benjamin: What value does Dada have in context of Walter Benjamins The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction? ------------------------------------------------- Martin Hannon ------------------------------------------------- Martin Newth ------------------------------------------------- B.A. Photography‚ Year 2. ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------
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After reading the article on The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin‚ it gives a lot of things to think about art these days and how it should be‚ whether the thinking of Walter Benjamin is relevant to our age of society these days is a different part of the story but how he interprets art in the article is a totally different thing‚ so let us view a bit about his article. “Our fine arts were developed‚ their types and uses were established‚ in times very different
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Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Summary Works of art have always been reproducible‚ through imitation. Mechanical reproduction characterizes a new period in reproduction‚ with new limits and repercussions. Each new technology employed in the production or reproduction of art increased the speed with which they could be done so. Lithography allowed for multiple images from one original‚ keeping up with the happenings of everyday life‚ and then photography
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from the commons‚ the Bourgeoisie from the Proletariat. As Walter Benjamin defines it – it was mechanical reproduction of artwork that the capitalists in power and laymen alike were able to experience without the limitations of financial shortcomings for either class. In this essay I will discuss this concept in light of Benjamin’s famous piece entitled “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Mechanical reproduction allows for us to easily reproduce artwork in different forms
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Walter Benjamin covers several topics in his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproduction"‚ but the two that resonated the most with me were his discussion on the loss of aura in modern art and of the politicization of art. Benjamin believes that art that is produced and/or replicated by mechanical means has lost its aura‚ the originality and authenticity of the work of art. I agree that the mass production of art causes it to lose is originality but I don’t believe it affects
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Assignment 1 Walter Benjamin in context to ‘The Girandola’ by Joseph Wright In this essay I will be applying Benjamin’s essay ‘Art in the age of mechanical reproduction’ to examin the erosion of aura around an artwork‚ aura can be defined from colours within the painting right down to the smell that surrounds the painting. The artwork that I will be focusing on will be ‘The Girandola’ that was created by Joseph Wright (of Derby) in 1734-1797. This comparison will be done by using my experience of
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