خلاصة:
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) was philosopher and cultural and literary critic. In 1936, he wrote the essay titled "The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction". This essay has had a profound influence on the approaches to art. His main concern was the change in the nature of the art in virtue of its technical reproducibility. Mass reproducibility transformed both of the art reception and the impact of artworks. The change in the impact of artworks on the audiences is due to the substitution of the ritual function with exhibitional function. Benjamin believes that, which disappears in the age of mechanical reproduction is the "aura" of the artwork. Mechanical reproduction in photography and film has completed this process in which the aura slowly disappears. He maintains that, this new experience alters the concept of art itself and recoils the function in favor of political and social behaviors; to say exactly, social function of art has changed from ritual to political one. He believed that, there is a hidden force in reproductive artwork in present age which can function against tradition.
ملخص الجهاز:
The Experience of Art in Modern Everyday Life Walter Benjamin's article "The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction" 1 is a fundamental and essential work for any discussion regarding the work of art in the contemporary period.
2 With a general view of Benjamin's thoughts and opinions, one can find the face of more or less a philosopher behind all his diverse works; just as he made the main subject of philosophical criticism the revelation of this point The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction Benjamin, Walter Benjamin and Art, pp.
3 In this article, Benjamin attempts to evaluate the impact of mass production and consumption, and modern technology, on the position of works of art and their effect on contemporary forms of popular art 4 or popular culture.
5 Given what has been stated, it can be said that the artist is no longer considered an independent and creative personality, but is instead regarded exactly like someone who, with a specific social and historical situation, faces conditions for producing art that are external to themselves.
" 4 Indicators of Art in the Modern Era As previously mentioned, Benjamin can be considered a pioneer of this view in art history, believing that the material means of artistic communication play a central role in the meaning of the arts.
Now, considering Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art," it has become clear that one of the factors indicating the end of aesthetics in the present age is the (emergence of) the mass society's elegies, great painters, and photography, pp.
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