ARTH 458 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Walter Benjamin
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The work of art in the age of woodblock reproduction. Colour in ming dynasty painting: associated with form likeness , appeal to inferior minds, despite significance in the past; zhang yanyuan: five colours should be all present in the management of ink alone. The five colours (blue, yellow, red, white, black): define the function rationale of sight, correlated with five directions, five elements, etc. : colours (and sex) are lovingly described many of the mostly costly techniques of decor-making use vibrant colours. : political allusions encoded in the poetry text; conventions of technical painting manual adapted to make new meanings; not a how-to book. Master gu"s pictorial album : meant to be reproductions of pictures, but very few carry inscriptions or seals compared to real pictures, not even artist"s signature. The pictures in master gu"s, without seals and colophons, implied a very different sense of the pictorial.
