Main entry:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940, author.

Title & Author:

The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility, and other writings on media / Walter Benjamin ; edited by Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y. Levin ; translated by Edmund Jephcot, Rodney Livingstone, Howard Eiland, and others.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
©2008

Description:

vi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. The production, reproduction, and reception of the work of art. The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility : second version ; Theory of distraction ; To the planetarium ; Garlanded entrance ; The rigorous study of art ; Imperial panorama ; The telephone ; The author as producer ; Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century ; Eduard Fuchs, collector and historian ; Review of Sternberger's Panorama -- II. Script, image, script-image. Attested auditor of books ; These surfaces for rent ; The antinomies of allegorical exegesis ; The ruin ; Dismemberment of language ; Graphology old and new -- III. Painting and graphics. Painting and the graphic arts ; On painting, or sign and mark ; A glimpse into the world of children's books ; Dream kitsch ; Moonlit nights on the Rue La Boetie ; Chambermaids' romances of the past century ; Antoine Wiertz : thoughts and visions of a severed head ; Some remarks on folk art ; Chinese paintings at the Bibliothèque Nationale -- IV. Photography. News about flowers ; Little history of photography ; Letter from Paris (2) : painting and photography ; Review of Freund's Photographie en France au dix-neuvième siècle -- V. Film. On the present situation of Russian film ; Reply to Oscar A. H. Schmitz ; Chaplin ; Chaplin in retrospect ; Mickey Mouse ; The formula in which the dialectical structure of film finds expression -- VI. The publishing industry and radio. Journalism ; A critique of the publishing industry ; The newspaper ; Karl Kraus ; Reflections on radio ; Theater and radio ; Conversation with Ernst Schoen ; Two types of popularity : fundamental reflections on a radio play ; On the minute.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

A series of influential essays on the visual arts that were made possible by machines, and the implications for the future of culture.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
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Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0674024451 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780674024458 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Knowledge and learning.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Translations into English.
Benjamin, Walter, Knowledge.
Benjamin, Walter,
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Fuchs, Eduard 1870-1940
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 och massmedia.
Art and society.
Photography of art.
Mass media Philosophy.
Arts, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Art et société.
Photographie d'œuvres d'art.
Médias Philosophie.
Arts 20e siècle Philosophie.
Arts, Modern Philosophy. 20th century.
Arts, Modern Philosophy.
Mass media.
Kunstsoziologie
Fotografie
Ästhetik
Text och bild.
Massmedia.
Benjamin, Walter Knowledge Mass media
Benjamin, Walter Translations into English

Form/genre:

Translations.

Added entries:

Jennings, Michael William, editor.
Doherty, Brigid, editor.
Levin, Thomas Y., editor.
Jephcott, E. F. N., translator.
Livingstone, Rodney, translator.
Eiland, Howard, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257167
Call No.: BIB 187610
Status: Available