This work quotes Werfel o
This work quotes Werfel on creating the "fairylike, marvelous, supernatural" and examines how Abel Gance adduces "hieroglyphs for purposes of comparison." This work analyzes Pirandello's comments on the metamorphosis of actors in Si Gira, and claims that the work of Dadaists became "an instrument of ballistics." Arguing that one title concept no longer has a "parasitical dependence on ritual" and has moved to politics, this essay's epilogue claims "All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war." This work claims that magicians and painters are divorced from their material, unlike the "penetration" which characterizes surgeons and cameramen. Because of a detachment from "the domain of tradition", this work argues that the title objects have lost their "aura." For 10 points, name this essay, a "formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art", by Walter Benjamin.
This work quotes Werfel on creating the "fairylike, marvelous, supernatural" and examines how Abel Gance adduces "hieroglyphs for purposes of comparison.
The {Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction}or Das {Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit}