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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
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Uniform title
Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
©2008
Description
vi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Subject(s)
Art and society
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Photography of art
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Mass media
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Philosophy
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Arts, Modern
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20th century
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Philosophy
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Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
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Knowledge and learning
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Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
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Translations into English
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Editor
Jennings, Michael William
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Doherty, Brigid
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Levin, Thomas Y.
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Translator
Jephcott, E. F. N.
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Livingstone, Rodney
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Eiland, Howard
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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.
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ISBN
0674024451 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780674024458 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2008004494
OCLC
144217796
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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 Jephcott [and others].
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