This
special issue of InterCulture features essays addressing and examining
the critical and theoretical actuality of the various versions and translations
of Walter Benjamin's seminal essay: \"The Work of Art in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction\".
Table of contents:
Introduction
Patricia Allmer, Manchester Metropolitan University,
and John Sears, Manchester Metropolitan University
Framing Pictures,
Transcending Marks: Walter Benjamin's 'On Paintings, Signs and Marks'
Andrew Benjamin, University of Technology, Sydney
After Aura: Re-reading
Benjamin's Kunstwerk
Colin Lang, Yale University
Works of Artwriting:
Some Legacies of Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age
of Mechanical Reproduction"
Jennifer Way, University of North Texas
The Life and
Times of Sheriff Woody: Benjamin, Baudrillard and some 'Theoretical
Toys'
Graeme Gilloch, University of Lancaster
Lens Flare in
the Age of Digital Production
Kirk E. Pillow, Corcoran College of Art & Design,
Washington, D.C
Benjamin's Aura,
Levine's Homage and Richter's Effect
Randall K. Van Schepen, Roger Williams University,
Bristol, RI
The Photographic
Subversion: Benjamin, Manet and Art(istic) Reproduction
Laurens S. Weingarden, Florida State University
The Hidden and
the Exposed: "One-Time Appearance" in Walter Benjamin and
Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial (a reading of Section iv of 'The
Work of Art in the Age of Its Technical Reproducibility', Second Version)
Richard J Lane, Malaspina University College
The Distractions
of the Built Environment: Architecture as a Collective Work of Art
Diane Morgan, University of Leeds
Book Review: Benjamin's
Theses 'On the Concept of History'
Rajeev S. Patke, National University of Singapore