Title Walter Benjamin and art / edited by Andrew Benjamin

Published London ; New York : Continuum, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 300 pages) Series Walter Benjamin studies series Walter Benjamin studies series. Contents Reception in distractions / Howard Eiland -- The timing of elective affinity: Walter Benjamin's strong aesthetics / Joanna Hodge -- Materialist mutations of the Bilderverbot / Rebecca Comay -- Is there an answer to the aestheticizing of the political? / Peter Fenves -- Benjamin or Heidegger: aesthetics and politics in an age of technology / Beatrice Hanssen -- The work of art in the age of ontological speculation: Walter Benjamin revisited / Arne Melberg -- The mimetic bond: Benjamin and the question of technology / Fabrizio Desideri -- Aura, still / Robert Kaufman -- Walter Benjamin and the tectonic unconscious / Detlef Mertins -- Aura, face, photography: re-reading Benjamin today / Diarmuid Costello -- Benjamin on art and reproducibility: the case of music / Rajeev S. Patke -- The work of art in the age of its electronic mutability / Krzysztof Ziarek -- Rehearsing revolution and life: the embodiment of Benjamin's artwork essay at the end of the age of mechanical reproduction / Saul Ostrow Summary Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamin's work; the question of historical connection; the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume inclu Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-287) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Aesthetics SUBJECT Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940 gnd Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940 Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit gnd Benjamin, Walter. swd Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit (Benjamin, Walter) fast Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit. swd Subject Art and society. LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays. Aesthetics Art and society Kunst Ästhetik Kunst. Esthetica. Techniek. Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung. Form Electronic book Author Benjamin, Andrew E. ISBN 9781847144546 1847144543 1281292052 9781281292056 1472547810 9781472547811 9786611292058 6611292055

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