Ways of Seeing (Penguin Modern Classics)
In his justly celebrated essay, “The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Walter Benjamin sets forth the idea, now almost commonplace, that the copying and disseminating of, say, a painting robs it of its aura. “Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique ex
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Within major historical periods, along with changes in the overall mode of being of the human collective, there are also changes in the manner of its sense perception.