Walter Benjamin and the mechanical reproducibility of art works revisited

Author

Knizek, Ian

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

British journal of aesthetics. 1993, Num. 4, Vol. 33, 357-366

ISSN

0007-0904

Abstract (en)

Considers Benjamin's essay "The work of art in the age of its mechanical reproducibility." Focuses on his notions of the art work's aura and particularly the mechanism of its withering and final destruction as a consequence of mechanical reproduction.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Germany
• Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
• Writings
• Aesthetics
• Reproductions
• Germany
• 1900-2000

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Allemagne
• Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
• Ecrits
• Esthétique
• Reproduction
• Allemagne
• 1900-2000

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940401-00340532

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