LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”
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“The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before one’s own image in the mirror.”
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“All art work, even mass produced art, clearly links to an original referent that has a stable and knowable meaning.”
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Both A and B
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Detailed explanation-1: -"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935), by Walter Benjamin, is an essay of cultural criticism which proposes and explains that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura (uniqueness) of an objet d’art.
Detailed explanation-2: -His essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936) was an incisive analysis of the social importance of photography, while his Arcades Project (1927-40) helped set the foundations of what became known as critical and cultural theory.
Detailed explanation-3: -Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1935, contemplates and brings predictions of how the mechanical reproduction of art and photography would entirely transform our understanding of art.
Detailed explanation-4: -Walter Benjamin once proposed that the “history of every art form has critical periods in which the particular form strains after effects which can be easily achieved only with a changed technical standard–that is, a new art form.” (“The Work of Art” 118).