The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin Jean Giono "Herzog's pilgrimage is a fugue

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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin Jean Giono "Herzog's pilgrimage is a fugueThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin ISBN 9780141036199 small 128 page paperback from Penguin's Great Ideas series *** One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. About the Great Ideas series: