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page 1Aesthetics essays
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
1935 essay by Walter Benjamin; proposes that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura of an artwork, that—in the age of mechanical reproduction and traditional ritualistic value’s absence—art production would be inherently based on political praxis
In Praise of Shadows
1933 essay by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Avant-Garde and Kitsch
article by Clement Greenberg
Art as Experience
by John Dewey
On Ugliness
2007 essay by Umberto Eco