ISBN:
0674024451
,
9780674024458
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 426 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Uniform Title:
Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit 〈engl.〉
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Benjamin, Walter Knowledge
;
Mass media
;
Benjamin, Walter Translations into English
;
Mass media Philosophy
;
Arts, Modern Philosophy 20th century
;
Art and society
;
Photography of art
;
Kunstsoziologie
;
Ästhetik
;
Fuchs, Eduard 1870-1940
;
Fotografie
Description / Table of Contents:
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 -- Attested auditor of books -- These surfaces for rent -- The antinomies of allegorical exegesis -- The ruin -- Dismemberment of language -- Graphology old and new -- 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 Boétie -- Chambermaids' romances of the past century -- Antoine Wiertz: thoughts and visions of a severed head -- Some remarks on folk art -- 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" -- On the present situation of Russian film -- Reply to Oscar A. H. Schmitz -- Chaplin -- Chaplin in retrospect -- Mickey Mouse -- The formula in ehich the dialectical structure of film finds expression -- 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the German
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23503
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