The Aura of the Object and the Work of Art: A Critical Analysis of Walter Benjamin’s Theory in the Context of Contemporary Art and Culture

This text is a critical interpretation of Walter Benjamin’s theory in the context contemporary situation art and culture. innovative method analysis key concepts their simultaneous research political function are carefully reconstructed. centered on main concept philosophical aesthetics, ‘aura’. shows how Benjamin mixes replaces aura work with historical object. thesis about loss age its technical reproducibility disputed. Technical does not take away art, but separates from Auraticness inherent every insofar as it art. The object disappear modernity either. With emergence aesthetic consciousness, museum, almost mechanical production auratic objects began modernity. As result “aura”, binary oppositions that frame art—art aura/art without aura; cult value/art value; aestheticization politics/politicization art—are questioned. At end this text, lines proposed by an attempt to make sense radical changes since beginning 20th century used outline perception which associated.