aura

Walter Benjamin

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is a kind of unapproachability, that is, the unique phenomenon of a distance however close it may be.

unapproachability 'the unique phenomenon of a distance however close it may be' (Benjamin Illuminations 222). Aura requires categories such as 'uniqueness' and 'authenticity'. With film, these things become irrelevant. 'Instead of being based on ritual, art will now be based on politics'. (Peter Burger Theory of the avant 28).

is a related to notions of uniqueness and authenticity, both of which become irrelevant in arts such as film which are eminently replicable in nature.

is all that is fascinating in a work of art, derived from its unique existence which endows it with symbolic authority. Its authority turns on the phenomenon of distance, that of the past and tradition.

This concept is treated at length in 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', though it first appears in the 'Brief History of Photography'. The traditional work of art has an aura that derives from its unique existence and endows it with symbolic authority. With the aura there is a phenomenon of distance, that of the past and tradition. By extension, the aura is all that is fascinating in the artwork. With the possibility of technical reproduction, the aura decays and disappears. What we have here is the conflict between repetition and the unique event.'http://walterbenjaminportbou.cat/en/content/glossari

is appearance of a distance, however close the thing that calls it forth. The trace, by contrast, is appearance of a nearness, however far removed the thing that left it behind may be. In the trace, we gain possession of the thing... in the aura, it takes possession of us.

The trace is appearance of a nearness, however far removed the thing that left it behind may be. The aura is appearance of a distance, however close the thing that calls it forth. In the trace, we gain possession of the thing... in the aura, it takes possession of us.

is given out by a person or object and is as much a part of them as their flesh.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. Lucian Freud

is that whereby a thing, on the basis of its unbridgeable distance, takes possession of us... just as a trace is a kind of left-behind nearness that allows us to gain possession of a thing.

's loss is associated with an aesthetic impoverishment, a loss of cultural value and a severing of the connection with the past... the autonomy of the image is one of the fetishes of capitalism.

Benjamin is highly critical of the indiscriminate new commercial uses of the image, which reveal the conflict between the unique (auratic) event and serial reproduction. The image's loss of aura is associated with an aesthetic impoverishment, a loss of cultural value and a severing of the connection with the past. The autonomy of the image is one of the fetishes of capitalism.' (net)

is the here and now of the artwork its unique existence in a particular place.

the 'here and now of the artwork its unique existence in a particular place.'

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