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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 ... [et al.].

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 ... [et al.].
Author
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Jephcott, E. F. N.
  • Jennings, Michael William.
  • Doherty, Brigid.
  • Levin, Thomas Y.
Description
v, 426 p. : ill.; 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
  • Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 > Knowledge > Mass media
  • Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 > Translations into English
  • 1900-1999
  • Art and society
  • Photography of art
  • Mass media > Philosophy
  • Arts, Modern > 20th century > Philosophy
Genre/Form
Translations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
9780674024458 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008004494
OCLC
  • 144217796
  • SCSB-12352684
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library