CUL233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Totalitarianism, Metonymy, Iphone 5
21 Aug 2018
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Today: going to explore significant technological revolutions that were instrumental in the emergence of kitsch, see how technologies produce kitsch and the implications to this process, relationship between kitsch and the original work of art. If so, how: to answer these questions, let"s consider theorists. Always been copied by pupils, admirers or forgers: but, copying art way back when it began to be held in galleries, it was limited. Cul223: kept the reproduction of art in the bounds of tradition where art was wholly reliant on the being hand-made, initially, art hard to reproduce. Then, during renaissance, could reproduce art but couldn"t compare to original: tracks it to the development of lithography mass production, revolutionised art, however, technology that revolutionised art was photography. Benjamin uses the aura" to refer to the uniqueness of the work of art and the way in which it gains its authority through the fabric of tradition.
