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Mapping Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Digital Age

By Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Editor), Michael J. Marrinan (Editor)
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By Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Editor), Michael J. Marrinan (Editor)
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Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin’s “Artwork” essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with the ability of new technologies—notably film, sound recording, and photography—to reproduce works of art in great number. Benjamin could not have foreseen the explosion of imagery and media that has occurred during the past fifty years.

Does Benjamin’s famous essay still speak to this new situa...

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