ARTH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Portrait Miniature, Ken Lum, Jeff Wall
11 Dec 2017
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Canvas: walter benjamin: paris, the capital of the nineteenth century(cid:157) by walter benjamin and rolf. Tiedemann, 1999 (expose of 1935), p. 3-13. (juliette freybe discussion week 9) Just as architecture with the first appearance of iron construction, begins to outgrow art, so does painting, in its turn, with the first appearance of panoramas. Through technical devices, panoramas made the scenes of a perfect imitation of nature. Announcing an upheaval in the relation of art to technology, panoramas are at the same time an expression of a new attitude toward life. Although, photography lead to the extinction of the great profession of portrait miniaturist as the early photograph was artistically superior to the miniature portrait. The technical grounds for this advantage lie in the long exposure time, which requires of a subject the highest concentrations; the social grounds for it lie in the fact that the first photographers belonged to the avant-garde (p.
