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The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility, and other writings on media
- Title
- 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].
- Author
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Supplementary Content
- Book review (H-Net)
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- Description
- vi, 426 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- A series of influential essays on the visual arts that were made possible by machines, and the implications for the future of culture.
- Uniform Title
- Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit. English
- Alternative Title
- Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQZ 12-1395
- ISBN
- 9780674024458
- 0674024451
- LCCN
- 2008004494
- OCLC
- 144217796
- Author
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Title
- 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].
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- Translated from the German.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Jennings, Michael William.Doherty, Brigid.Levin, Thomas Y.Jephcott, E. F. N.
- Research Call Number
- JQZ 12-1395