Handling shocks : on the representation of experience in Walter Benjamin's analogies

Author

Shiff, Richard

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Oxford art journal. 1992, Num. 2, Vol. 15, 88-103

ISSN

0142-6540

Abstract (en)

Argues that Benjamin capitalized on the mimetic potential of rhetorical figures in order to grasp the experience of shock while preserving its shocking nature; discusses his concept of the auratic and his views on the properties of photography as opposed to classical painting; draws attention to the implication that the aura of cliché must already be activated at the initiation of the process of artistic dissemination, which produces cliché; thus the generation of aura coincides with the decay of aura in the consumption of cliché.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Germany
• Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
• Photography
• Writings
• Painting
• Comparison
• Art theory
• Germany
• 1900-2000

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Allemagne
• Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
• Photographie
• Ecrits
• Peinture
• Comparaison
• Théorie de l'art
• Allemagne
• 1900-2000

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19930401-00366511

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