The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

出版者:Belknap Press

作者:Walter Benjamin

页数:448

出版时间:2008-5-31

价格:USD 20.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780674024458

具体描述

Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts - on media and on culture in general - in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought.This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to demonstrate what was revolutionary about Benjamin's explorations on media. Long before Marshall McLuhan, Benjamin saw that the way a bullet rips into its victim is exactly the way a movie or pop song lodges in the soul.This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the "Work of Art" essay - the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. The collection tracks Benjamin's observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting. The volume contains some of Benjamin's best-known work alongside fascinating, little-known essays - some appearing for the first time in English. In the context of his passionate engagement with questions of aesthetics, the scope of Benjamin's media theory can be fully appreciated.

读后感

本雅明被称为媒体哲学的先驱。他把现代定义为机械复制的时代，并称其最大特点是“光晕”的没落，随着“光晕”的没落，在欣赏艺术品时大众的视觉印象开始占据主导地位。本雅明认为随着社会以及经济水平的不同艺术也在发生着变化，所以在它看来传统美学在现今没有太大的用处...  

本雅明在《机械复制时代的艺术作品》一书中主要论述了机械复制技术的发展给艺术领域带来的一系列变革。它把艺术人从一向被人们所崇敬的神圣的“祭坛”上拖了下来，在摧毁了传统的同时使现代艺术具有了新的特点、价值和接受方式。在这里，我主要想谈一下这本书中关于“光韵...  

本集翻译比Illumination和Reflections，通畅有力得多。 尤其是Reproducibility一文的翻译，选择的是第二版（最详实）的一版。对于理解马克思主义理路下的本雅明，比Illumination选择的第三版，有用太多。强烈推荐以本版翻译，作为未来本雅明讨论的基础。当然有德文更好。:P 另...  

用户评价

大爱这个封面，以及本雅明真是喜欢比自己大点的御姐啊。。。

老头还喜欢米老鼠

这本里的技术复制时代艺术是约1936年的第二版，是参照selected writings里收的第三版翻译的，很方便用于比较两者之间的变化。

常读常新

媒介相关的选文很全（只读了一部分