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Benjamin's style is the manner in which the assembly of momentary thoughts and impressions creates, in a literary sense, the artistic aura of authenticity introduced in his seminal essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” By preserving the form, content, and style.
Walter Benjamin 1892 - 1940 During the lecture, we examined an essay written by Walter Benjamin in 1936 entitled 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'. It has been influential across the world, especially in the fields of cultural studies, media theory and art history. Published in an era when Hitler was Chancellor of Germany.
Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Source: Walter Benjamin, 'The Work of Art In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', translated by Harry Zohn, in Benjamin, Illuminations, London, Jonathan Cape, 1970, pp. 219-53. This text has been edited and end- notes omitted; three foornotes have been retained.
In Walter Benjamin’s writing, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he makes a clear and evident point of the obvious; technology and its ability to take over our universe.more specifically in the works of art. From how we once perceived art was in the form of the tangibl.
Enter Walter Benjamin and his seminal 1935 essay (still a staple of analysis and reflection), entitled in English translation—“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. What preoccupied Benjamin was how to understand the reproduction of works of art.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935, Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit), by Walter Benjamin, is an essay of cultural criticism which proposes that the aura of a work of art is devalued by mechanical reproduction.
The book was missing several chapters: it only had 2 essays by Benjamin and it was supposed to have 10 or so, and was only 109 pages as opposed to about 280. Specifically, it did not have Work and Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.