Benjamin Did NOT mourn the loss of the "Aura".
Exhibitionistas - Notes on Contemporary Art & LifeJuly 22, 202600:02:48

Benjamin Did NOT mourn the loss of the "Aura".

What if we failed to see what Benjamin alerts us to in his seminal art book "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"? What if mass reproduction of images brought an art liberation? What if preserving the here and now of the aesthetic experience was a form of gatekeeping? And how can we read the concept of aura today?

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