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Walter Benjamin and Art (Walter Benjamin Studies)

Walter Benjamin and Art (Walter Benjamin Studies)

by Andrew Benjamin (Editor)

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    Paperback 2005

    $79.22
Synopsis

Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamin's work; the question of historical connection; the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume include major Benjamin commentators, whose work has very much defined the reception of the essay, and leading philosophers, historians and aesthetician, whose approaches open up new areas of interest and relevance.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 17 Feb 2005
ISBN 10: 082646730X
ISBN 13: 9780826467300

Media Reviews

This volume of thirteen essays presents reevaluations of Walter Benjamin's short but influential essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.. .. Benjamin's influence remains strong, particularly within the disciplines of philosophy, history, aesthetics, and cultural theory. The strength of this book is that it gives a sense of the direction of current Benjamin scholarship from within those disciplines, expressed in terms that5 are accessible to the general academic reader. - Frances Robertson, Technology and Culture, July 2006, Vol. 47

Author Bio
Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash University, Australia. His previous publications include: Writing Art and Architecture(Re: press, 2010) Of Jews and Animals (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Northwestern UP, 2006), Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (Clinamen Press, 2004), Philosophy's Literature (Clinamen Press, 2001) and Present Hope: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Judaism (Routledge, 1997). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2005.