000			01279nam a22001457a 4500
020			_a9781912284757
082			_a750 _bDIN/M
100			_aDini, Rachele
245			_aA Macat analysis of Walter Benjamin's The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
260			_aLondon _bMacat International _c2017
300			_a104p.
520			_aThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction combats traditional art criticism’s treatment of artworks as fixed, unchanging mystical objects. For Walter Benjamin, the consequences of addressing a work of art in this manner have a wider resonance: closed off from any active visual or tactile engagement, the work of art becomes an object of passive contemplation and a potential tool of oppression. Benjamin argues that technology has fundamentally altered the way art is experienced. Potentially open to interpretation and accessible to many, art in the age of mechanical reproduction has the potential to be mobilized for radical purposes. While ostensibly addressing the artistic consequences of technical reproducibility on art, Benjamin also addresses the wider political consequences of this shift.
650			_aBenjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 _aPhotography in art _aArt and society _aArt and technology
942			_cBK
999			_c60293 _d60293