FTP, name this essay about the aesthetics of duplication by Walter Benjamin.
The third section of this work cites the Viennese scholars Riegl and Wickhoff to argue that during "long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity's entire mode of existence." Its sixth section notes that the works of Atget demonstrated the growing superiority of exhibition value over cult value, and it later argues that works by the Dadaists "hit the spectator like a bullet." This essay contrasts the contemplative man with the distracted mass, compares painters to magicians and cameramen to surgeons, and ends by asserting that "Fascism renders politics aesthetic; Communism responds by politicizing art." It opens by describing the progression from woodcuts to lithography to photography to film, and argues that those media destroy the auras of the title entities by ? copying them. FTP, name this essay about the aesthetics of duplication by Walter Benjamin.
The third section of this work cites the Viennese scholars Riegl and Wickhoff to argue that during "long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity's entire mode of existence.
The Work of Art in the {Age} of {Mechanical Reproduction}