Ways of Seeing, (Paperback)

from antao

"But because it is nevertheless 'a work of art"' - and art is thought to be greater than commerce - its market price is said to be a reflection of its spiritual value of an object, as distinct from...

from Paulagraph

I read this book first quite a few years ago. Even at that time, the idea of the commodification of images (refer to Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"o...

from stillatim

I am not the audience for this book, mainly because I've already read and more or less digested the handful of essays and ideas on which it is based. The seven chapters break down fairly simply. 1:...

from dono421846

Interesting insights sprinkled throughout this short book. I found particularly engaging the first chapter, in which the author describes the impact of mechanical reproduction on the value and sign...

from spoko

By and large, I'm not a fan of manifestos. This one was no exception. It had a lot of insight, as manifestos often do, and I learned a lot from it, which is also not atypical. But to my mind, there...