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Title Walter Benjamin and art / edited by Andrew Benjamin.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Continuum, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 300 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Walter Benjamin studies series
Walter Benjamin studies series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-287) and index.
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.
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Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Aesthetics.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Aesthetics.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Esthétique.
Art and society.
Art and society.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Benjamin, Andrew E.
Other Form: Print version: Walter Benjamin and art. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2005 (DLC) 2004056178
ISBN 9781847144546 (electronic book)
1847144543 (electronic book)
1281292052
9781281292056
0826467296
082646730X (paperback)
9780826467294
9780826467300 (paperback)