Sunday, April 22, 2018

Week 3

Karina Rodriguez
Technical Reproduction

Technical reproduction allows us to reproduce all transmitted works of art. Although that may sound like a good thing, there are negatives to reproducing one work of art.
Walter Benjamin talks about how a piece of art can have the most perfect reproduction but it lacks one thing about it, it doesn’t have the authenticity of the time and place. It doesn’t draw in the environment around the artwork and what was happening in history at that time.
What was happening in society helps elevate the artwork and make it more profound and meaningful. We may see a piece of art at this moment in time and we may enjoy it for what it has to offer at this moment in time, but the original piece of work brought so much more. Not only because of what the piece had to offer on its own but also because the impact the piece made on society and major controversial issues. Technical reproduction also takes away from other aspects of the artwork. It fails to capture the change and transformation of a piece of art over time. Time is a part of art as it changes a lot about it with the more time that passes. The physical condition of the art work may have changed either by aging or damage. The ownership of the piece could have changed as well, but with technical reproduction we aren’t aware of any of this.
Technical reproduction does have its benefits, it is a way to share art and what the art has to say. Yet, technical reproduction takes away from the authenticity of the piece and what the original true art had to offer.






Works Cited
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." 

"Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility." https://sites.nd.edu/visconsi-holland/2017/01/31/walter-benjamin-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-its-technological-reproducibility/


"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. p1." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzMULfXbguI

"Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Part 1)." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYUhKo47SaE
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2 comments:

  1. brontehalliganApril 23, 2018 at 7:18 PM

    I like your discussion about technological reproduction in regards to production lines and the way in which is takes away from authenticity. It defiantly does take away from capturing the change of art over time. However it also creates efficiency and I believe that there are positive and negative elements to these technological advances in regards to art

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  2. UnknownApril 24, 2018 at 3:28 PM

    Hi Karina,
    I agree with you in that the technological reproduction of artwork has taken away the authenticity and uniqueness from many famous pieces of art; however, I don't feel that it has rendered the original pieces completely useless. The reproduction of art might have even made original works more valuable to people as they seem more rare when their are mostly only fake copies of artwork. For example, despite the fact that famous paintings such as the "Mona Lisa" and "The Birth of Venus" have been recreated millions of times, when people see the original paintings in person they are bewildered. Even though the mass production of art has some negatives, it has also allowed for art to become much more popular in the modern world which is an overwhelming positive.

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