Wow this reading is long but still something I need and want to know, the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
That I have read so far is that In photography, exhibition value begins to displace cult value all along the line.
The nineteenth-century dispute as to the artistic value of painting versus photography today seems devious and confused.Then film came and brought a new world of art which is acting, technique of the film, and the theater. Mechanical reproduction of art changes the reaction of the masses toward art. The reactionary attitude toward a Picasso painting changes into the progressive reaction toward a Chaplin movie.
In principle a work of art man-made artifacts could always be imitated by men. Mechanical reproduction of a work of art represents something new. Historically, it advanced intermittently and in leaps at long intervals, with accelerated intensity.
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