 | Jane Caputi - 1987 - 270 lapas
...existence of the art object. As such, uniqueness itself becomes devalued, meaningless, and correspondingly, "that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art."59 What then, we might wonder, have been the ramifications of this age on the perceived... | |
 | Wendy Steiner - 1988 - 242 lapas
...ranging from its substantive duration to its testimony to the history which it has experienced. . . . that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. . . . the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of... | |
 | Richard Bolton - 1992 - 438 lapas
..."cult value" and "exhibition value." Their opposition provides the basis for Benjamin's claim that "that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art." ' This oft-cited fragment compresses into aphorism a rich and ingenious argument, one... | |
 | Russell A. Berman - 1989 - 292 lapas
...art (film) and its mass reception displace the erstwhile individual actors with collective agents. "That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art," and this transformation, the ultimate emancipation of art from its cultic origin, emancipates... | |
 | 1994 - 312 lapas
...the argument of "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" relate to Danto's account? "That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art." Once artworks were unique originals; with photography we have, rather, "a plurality of... | |
 | Douglas Crimp - 1993 - 374 lapas
...inevitably depreciated through mechanical reproduction, diminished through the proliferation of copies. "That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art," is the way Benjamin puts it.3 But, of course, the aura is not an ontological category... | |
 | Robert D. Newman - 1993 - 196 lapas
...has experienced. . . . One might subsume the eliminated element in the term "aura" and go on to say: that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. Benjamin goes on to contend that the most powerful agent for the shattering of tradition... | |
 | Thomas Docherty - 1993 - 548 lapas
...inevitably depreciated through mechanical reproduction, diminished through the proliferation of copies. 'That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art,' is the way Benjamin put it.2 But, of course, the aura is not a mechanistic concept as... | |
 | Ammiel Alcalay - 1993 - 354 lapas
...embedded in the fabric of tradition. This tradition is itself thoroughly alive and extremely changeable. That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of a work of art ... the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.... | |
 | Joseph Kerman - 1994 - 384 lapas
...masterpiece by the conductor and the players; and the solitary willed experience of music in the hi-fi den. "That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. . . . The technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of... | |
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... the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points beyond the realm of art. One might generalize by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions... 
