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"Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with the ability of new technologies--notably film, sound recording, and photography--to reproduce works of art in great number. Benjamin could not have foreseen the explosion of imagery and media that has occurred during the past fifty years. Does Benjamin's famous essay still speak to this new situation? That is the question posed by the editors of this book to a wide range of leading scholars and…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2003Stanford University Press · 368 pages · 9780804744362
- Other · English · 2003Stanford University Press · 349 pages · 9780804744355
Digital communicationsTechnology and the artsMass mediaModern AestheticsAesthetics, modernAestheticsDigital mediaEsthétique