...existence of the art object. As such, uniqueness itself becomes devalued, meaningless, and correspondingly, "that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art."59 What then, we might wonder, have been the ramifications of this age on the perceived auras/reality...

...ranging from its substantive duration to its testimony to the history which it has experienced. . . . that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. . . . the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By...

...art (film) and its mass reception displace the erstwhile individual actors with collective agents. "That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art," and this transformation, the ultimate emancipation of art from its cultic origin, emancipates the recipient...

..."cult value" and "exhibition value." Their opposition provides the basis for Benjamin's claim that "that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art." ' This oft-cited fragment compresses into aphorism a rich and ingenious argument, one bv now sufficiently...

...the argument of "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" relate to Danto's account? "That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art." Once artworks were unique originals; with photography we have, rather, "a plurality of copies" (221l....

...inevitably depreciated through mechanical reproduction, diminished through the proliferation of copies. "That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art," is the way Benjamin puts it.3 But, of course, the aura is not an ontological category as employed by...

...inevitably depreciated through mechanical reproduction, diminished through the proliferation of copies. 'That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art,' is the way Benjamin put it.2 But, of course, the aura is not a mechanistic concept as employed by Benjamin,...

...has experienced. . . . One might subsume the eliminated element in the term "aura" and go on to say: that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. Benjamin goes on to contend that the most powerful agent for the shattering of tradition is film; Illuminations,...

...embedded in the fabric of tradition. This tradition is itself thoroughly alive and extremely changeable. That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of a work of art ... the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition....

...masterpiece by the conductor and the players; and the solitary willed experience of music in the hi-fi den. "That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. . . . The technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition."13...