MPC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jenny Holzer, The Cameraman, Rachel Whiteread
2 Nov 2016
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The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. A work of art has always had the ability to be reproduces by others, however mechanical reproduction of a work of art, represents something new. At first coin was the only thing that they were able to make copies of, after that it was graphic art which was copier before script became print. Photography came along and freed the hand not long after lithography was invented. Even the most perfect copy of a work of art lacks the presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. Its unique existence includes the changes it may have suffered in physical condition over the years as well as the various changes in its ownership. The traces of the original can be revealed only by chemical or physical analyses which it is impossible to perform on a reproduction.
