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The Work of Art in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction
- A work of art has
always been
reproducible.
- Greeks
reproduced
works of art:
- Founding.
- Stamping.
- Founding.
- Greeks
reproduced
works of art:
- woodcut graphic art:
became mechanically
reproducible for the first time
- 19th Century: lithography
Appeared
- Only a few decades after its invention,
it was surpassed by photography.
- Photography captured images at
the speed of an actor's
movements
- Photography captured images at
the speed of an actor's
movements
- Only a few decades after its invention,
it was surpassed by photography.
- Even the most perfect
reproduction of a work of
art lacks:
- presence in
time and space
- The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all that
its transmissible from its beginning
- The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all that
its transmissible from its beginning
- presence in
time and space
- Human sense perception is
determined by nature and
historical circunstances
- Aura: unique phenomenon of a distance,
the sensation or feeling you get by getting
closer to someone or something
- we have a tendency to reproduce
things, doing it also destroys the aura
- we have a tendency to reproduce
things, doing it also destroys the aura
- The uniqueness of a
work of art is
inseparable from its
being imbedded in the
fabric of tradition
- Earliest works of art originated in
the service of a ritual
- L'art pour l'art - Doing
art for art's sake
- Mechanical reproduction-
Doing art for politics
- L'art pour l'art - Doing
art for art's sake
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