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Printeresting - February 1, 2010
Benjamin’s Ghost: An Interview with Steve Grasse of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Jason Urban The following interview appears at Printeresting courtesy of the Mid America Print Council. ... Read More
Louise Naunton Morgan is a recent design/illustration graduate who "believes we are losing the essence of human production and craft to the machine." To combat the resulting "soulless utilitarianism," Louise ... Read More
The Textile Files: Walter In The Wild & A Plethora of Other Fabric Delights
The Textile Files, the musings of Solveigh Goett (German textile artist and researcher living in the south of England), is my new favorite blog. Simple and unassumingly poignant in nature, ... Read More
Taxation for (Artistic) Creation: Benjamin, Roosevelt, & Obama
Walter Benjamin wrote his critical essay "The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936) at the height of The Great Depression in America. Though German by birth ... Read More
The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction…In 30 Seconds
You can watch this video quicker than you can say "Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction", three times fast. Ridiculous PowerPoint music, good points. Rather interesting that most of ... Read More
Walter Benjamin & Interior Decorating?! The Arcades Project & The Bourgeois Apartment
An awesome and insightful article from Drinking Upstream: Real clear thoughts on the philosophy of dwelling really got me thinking... Shane Waggoner writes, "In The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin described ... Read More
Spectors of Walter... Read the full-text of "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936). Read More
IMAGE NECESSITIES: Walter Benjamin Symposium (Part II)
This is the second and last piece in a pair of documentation posts for IMAGE NECESSITIES: A Symposium on the Media-Theoretical Writings of Walter Benjamin. [caption id="attachment_521" align="alignnone" width="199" caption="A Gathering ... Read More
IMAGE NECESSITIES: Walter Benjamin Symposium (Part I)
On Friday, I had the honor and pleasure of attending IMAGE NECESSITIES: A Symposium on the Media-Theoretical Writings of Walter Benjamin. The two-day Event O' Academia was held at Princeton ... Read More
IMAGE NECESSITIES: A Symposium on the Media-Theoretical Writings of Walter Benjamin
A two-day conference of Walter Benjamin scholars will take place this Friday and Saturday at Princeton University. Entitled, IMAGE NECESSITIES, the conference will feature talks by a variety of international ... Read More
Cabinet Magazine: “Getting High With Benjamin & Burroughs”
Housed within the pages of the latest issue (No. 30) of the ever-compelling art/lit publication, Cabinet, is an essay on Walt Benjamin, William Burroughs, and hallucinogens. [caption id="attachment_496" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The ... Read More
DESIGN & CRIME (and Other Diatribes): Hal Foster on Aesthetic Death
At first glance, this tiny tome appears to be a "quick read." The pocket-size collection of short rants spilling forth from art critic Hal Foster took me four months to ... Read More
Designer/typographer David Pearson designed this book cover for third installment of Penguin Books Great Ideas Series. Brilliant. Enough said. --- Check out the cover designs for the other releases in the series in the ... Read More
Walter Benjamin and Ways of Seeing: “Nomadic Colors” on The Web?
BlogLESS, writings on design restraint, brought up a very interesting application of our friend Walt Benjamin's ideas on the reproduction of art in contemporary society. The article, entitled "Colors for ... Read More
Photoshop As Art: What Would Walter Say?
Check out this recent blog commentary on Contemporary Digital Media as art from Carla Moloney. Thinking Points From The Post: a) If reproducibility decreases the "aura" of an artwork, does it also ... Read More
Musings on Our Society of Spectacle: Lawler, Benjamin, and Friends
Benjamin thinks on Louise Lawler's "Pollock and Tureen, Arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Connecticut" - 1984 A recent post by art history students at The University of California in ... Read More
BOOK REVIEW: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
To be completely honest, I purchased this book solely for its absurd title. Seriously, what in the world could a dead German philosopher and creamy frozen dairy stands have in ... Read More
