Always the real the thing?

Walter Benjamin’s famous 1935 essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ addresses the authenticity of a work of art as something beyond the merely material and technical. Benjamin constructs a broader notion of authenticity that includes ‘the life of things’ and is related to new...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lara Schrijver
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KNOB 2020-12-01
Series:Bulletin KNOB
Online Access:https://bulletin.knob.nl/index.php/knob/article/view/701