Reproduction and Dissemination: Democraticizing Art
How we characterize and experience works of art. Within this framework, examine the concept of art, aura, authenticity, originality, ritual or cult value, aesthetic
experience, and function
If “that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of a work of art” (Benjamin), then what blooms? What is lost and what is gained? In your
reflections, consider the aura of the original, quality of the presence, copies and plurals, the power of the object/sound, mechanical reproduction and politics. Send
us to a website for visual, verbal, or audio references.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
Walter Benjamin (1936)
Freeland, Cynthia. But is it art? Digitizing and disseminating
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
2. There’s an exhibition upcoming in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Andy Warhol’s Posters . . . they reside in an art space designated as part of the “artworld” .
. . they are presented as “candidacy of appreciation” . . . how would Benjamin describe Warhol posters in terms of “authenticity” . . . is one poster “authentic” and
the others reproductions . . . and how does that affect its aesthetics?
from https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/expositions/a-venir/andy-warhol
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