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''''The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin 1936'''' | |||
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'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin 1936'
I PAGE ONE
A work of art has always been reproduced in order to help practice, diffuse, pursuit of gain etc. Mechanical reproduction of a work of art represents something new. When lithography began to keep pace with printing, it surpassed by photography, the same situation being revealed, when the pictorial reproduction could keep pace with speech, it foreshadowed the sound film. The technical reproduction had reached a standard that not only permitted it to produce all transmitted works of art and thus cause the most profound change in their impact upon the public.
II PAGE TWO
History and authenticity demands for presence of the original, because even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art lacks of its presence in time and space, what’s more, the authenticity of a thing is the essence of all that is transmissible and historical testimony rests on the authenticity. However, technical reproduction is more independent and can make copies out of its own context but enables the original to meet the beholder halfway. Making many reproductions leads to a circle shattering the tradition, within which a plurality of copies substitute for a unique existence by making reproductions, and then it reactivates reproductions after permitting reproduction to meet audiences in its own particular situation. Film is the most representative agent, liquidating of the traditional value of the cultural heritage.
III PAGE THREE
Human sense perception changes by nature and more historical circumstances. Social transformations are expressed by these changes of perception. the aura decays in the contemporary bases. It is revealed in two circumstances, the desire of contemporary masses to bring things closer spatially and humanly; overcoming the uniqueness of every reality by accepting its reproduction.
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The aura of art works as its uniqueness has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. Whereas, art reacted with a theology, it gave rise to pure art.
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