NPF 504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lithography, Sound Film, Proletariat
14 Dec 2015
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Directed efforts in a way to give them prognostic value. Went back to the basic conditions underlying capitalistic production and showed what would happen to capitalism in the future. The result was one that could expect it not only to exploit the proletariat with increasing intensity, but ultimately to create conditions which would make it possible to abolish capitalism itself. The transformation of the superstructure has taken more than half a century to manifest in all areas of culture the change in the conditions of production. A work of art has always been reproducible. Man-made artifacts could always be imitated by men. The greeks knew only two procedures of technically reproducing works. All others were unique and could not have been. Bronzes, terra cottas, and coins were the only art works which of art: founding and stamping they could produce in quantity reproduced mechanically.
