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Title: | UTCP Seminar: Rereading Walter Benjamin’s “Artwork in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”Registration Required Finished |
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| Date: | 4:30 pm – 6 pm, November 20, 2009 (Fri) |
Place: | [New Location] Collaboration Room 1 | 4th Floor, Bldg 18 | The University of Tokyo, Komaba [map] |
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UTCP Seminar
Rereading Walter Benjamin’s “Artwork in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Henri Zerner (Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University)
- November 20, 2009 (Fri)
[New Location] Collaboration Room 1
4th Floor, Bldg 18, The University of Tokyo, Komaba [map]
Language: English/French
Admission Free | Pre-registration Required
Contact: image.studies[at]utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
“Artwork in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” is one of the best known and most commented-upon texts of modern criticism. My intention is to discuss the term “reproduction,” whose meaning is historically unstable. This instability introduces a certain number of issues into Benjamin’s text and its interpretation. It has been asked whether reproduction really destroyed aura, the artwork’s “sacral” residue. My position is that this depends on the meaning one gives to the terms “reproducibility” and reproduction. (H. Zerner)
- Walter Benjamin, “Artwork in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility, Second Version [1936],” trans. Edmund Jephcott and Harry Zohn, in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935–1938 (Harvard University Press; Belknap, 2006), 101–133.
