The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction(Walter Benjamin)
What is the author’s point of view？
Unlike scholars who are worried that social media will negatively impact and affect the field of art, Benjamin is very affirmed of these changes and believes that it will bring essential changes to art.
The mechanical reproduction weakens the restriction of the space between the art and its audience, breaks the closed understanding of art, and takes off the halo of art. This establishes an equal relationship between the subject and the object and makes it possible to view art critically. All credits should be attributed to social media.(photography, film, advertising)
Does it connect to your practice?
Recorded sounds, photography, and movies have drastically subverted the meaning of art in today’s society, and “reproducibility” has also made the value of art more and more diluted.I am a person who likes to go to museums and various exhibitions. I think that the feeling of being face-to-face with an artwork is completely different from the photos of viewing it.
It’s like a flower and tree growing from the 16th century to the present, how would it feel to see it in person? The same is true for artworks. Artworks are things with life, and this “life” also has age and experience. Its uniqueness is given together with its destruction by time, and cannot be taken away by any copy.