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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Writer
Walter Benjamin
Date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Format
Anthologies
ISBN
9780141036199
Size
11 × 18 cm
Length
128 pp
Genre
Arts Writing, Criticism, Theory
Description

One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin’s groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.

Republished in the Penguin Great Ideas Series.

Softcover, b/w.

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