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Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mass culture. Benjamin was especially concerned with the ability of new technologies - notably film, sound recording and photography - to reproduce works of art in great number. Benjamin could not have foreseen the explosion of imagery and media that has occurred during the past 50 years. Does Benjamins' famous essay still speak to this new situation? That is the question posed by the editors of this book to a wide range of leading scholars and thinkers across a spectrum of disciplines in the humanities. The essays gathered here do not hazard a univocal reply to that question; rather they offer a rich, wide-ranging critique of Benjamin's position that refracts and reflects contemporary thinking about the ethical, political and aesthetic implications of life in the digital age.

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Book category Books in English The arts The arts: general issues Theory of art

• Full title: Mapping Benjamin
• Subtitle: The Work of Art in the Digital Age
• Author: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael J. Marrinan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780804744355
• ISBN: 0804744351
• ID: 04717443
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 608 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. July 2003

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