...modern world, and the diverse cultures of non- Western societies. EIGHT Folk Music in the Modern World Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art...unique existence at the place where it happens to be. This unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout...

...'Ibday, we have printing, lithography, photography, and film, among other kinds of reproduction. But "even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art...unique existence at the place where it happens to be" (ibid., p. 222). When Benjamin claims that reproduction kills the "aura" of a work of art, he is unknowingly...

..."exhibited," the mechanically reproduced work of art loses — in contrast to the traditional work — its "presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be."1 Benjamin argues that a new mode of perception of the work, a new form of consciousness, must...

...appears to be one of the essential characteristics of mass culture. As Walter Benjamin has written, "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art...unique existence at the place where it happens to be." That is also the characteristic of the White City and the Midway. See Walter Benjamin, "The Work of...

...Jews who perished, without reference to the monument's heroes.36 When Walter Benjamin observed that "even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art...unique existence at the place where it happens to be," he suggested two greater truths as well: that part of the work of art is its particular time and place,...

...advent of photography, then film, is the "aura" of the work of art, what Benjamin characterizes as its "presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be." 67 But stamp collecting itself seems grounded in the aura of the rarest of stamps, "the one penny British...

...its ability to exist singly. "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art," as he says, lacks "its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be" ([1936] 1969, 220). This authority of uniqueness, this testimony of subsequent ages to uniqueness -...

...mechanical reproduction. "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art," wrote Benjamin in 1936, is lacking in one element: its presence in time and...unique existence at the place where it happens to be. . . . One might subsume the eliminated element in the term "aura" and go on to say: that which withers...

...quantities of evidence. The sense of aura described by Walter Benjamin vanishes — "[a work of art's] presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be."2 Everything is up for grabs in a gigantic reshuffling of the stuff of everyday life. Everything,...

...Echtheit entzieht sich der technischen - und natiirlich nicht nur technischen - Reproduzierbarkeit.71 Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art...unique existence at the place where it happens to be ... The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity . . . The whole...