by Walter Benjamin
- Author(s)
- Walter Benjamin
- Publication, year
- : , 1935
- Scope
- 25 Pages, 30 cm.
'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (German: Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit, 1935) by Walter Benjamin, is an essay of cultural criticism which proposes and explains that mechanical reproduction changes the aura (uniqueness) of a work of art, and that in the age of mechanical reproduction and the absence of traditional and ritualistic value, the production of art would be inherently based upon the praxis of politics. The subject and themes of Benjamin's essay: the aura of a work of art; the artistic authenticity of the artefact; the cultural authority of the work of art; and the aestheticization of politics for the production of art, became resources for research in the fields of art history and architectural theory, cultural studies, and media theory. (See also the review 'Verstrooiing is niet louter amusement' (in Dutch) about Benjamin's so called 'kunstwerkessay', by René Boomkens.
- Person as subject
- Walter Benjamin
- Keywords
- new media - media literacy
- Location
- Cabinet 10 - 4: Kunst ; teksten / Art ; texts
- Remarks
- essay from 'Illuminations', ed. by Hannah Arendt ; transl. from the1935 essay by Harry Zohn. - New York : Schocken Books, 1969. in ordner: 'Nieuwe Media/ New Media 2000-2010' in same ordner: 'Verstrooiing is niet louter amusement' by René Boomkens
- Contains
- noten / notes
