The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility, and other writings on media / Walter Benjamin ; edited by Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y. Levin ; translated by Edmund Jephcot, Rodney Livingstone, Howard Eiland, and others.

Author
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 [Browse]
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Language
English
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  • Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
  • ©2008
Description
vi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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            Summary note
            A series of influential essays on the visual arts that were made possible by machines, and the implications for the future of culture.
            Notes
            Translation of: Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit.
            Bibliographic references
            Includes bibliographical references and index.
            Contents
            • I. The production, reproduction, and reception of the work of art. The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility : second version ; Theory of distraction ; To the planetarium ; Garlanded entrance ; The rigorous study of art ; Imperial panorama ; The telephone ; The author as producer ; Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century ; Eduard Fuchs, collector and historian ; Review of Sternberger's Panorama
            • II. Script, image, script-image. Attested auditor of books ; These surfaces for rent ; The antinomies of allegorical exegesis ; The ruin ; Dismemberment of language ; Graphology old and new
            • III. Painting and graphics. Painting and the graphic arts ; On painting, or sign and mark ; A glimpse into the world of children's books ; Dream kitsch ; Moonlit nights on the Rue La Boetie ; Chambermaids' romances of the past century ; Antoine Wiertz : thoughts and visions of a severed head ; Some remarks on folk art ; Chinese paintings at the Bibliothèque Nationale
            • IV. Photography. News about flowers ; Little history of photography ; Letter from Paris (2) : painting and photography ; Review of Freund's Photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle
            • V. Film. On the present situation of Russian film ; Reply to Oscar A. H. Schmitz ; Chaplin ; Chaplin in retrospect ; Mickey Mouse ; The formula in which the dialectical structure of film finds expression
            • VI. The publishing industry and radio. Journalism ; A critique of the publishing industry ; The newspaper ; Karl Kraus ; Reflections on radio ; Theater and radio ; Conversation with Ernst Schoen ; Two types of popularity : fundamental reflections on a radio play ; On the minute.
            ISBN
            • 0674024451 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
            • 9780674024458 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
            LCCN
            2008004494
            OCLC
            144217796
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