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...Keith Broadfoot 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Keith Broadfoot Abstraction and Aura When did the desire to paint the last painting begin? By the time of Ad Reinhardt and his series of Ultimate Paintings, he...

...Rex Butler 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Rex Butler ‘‘Bright Shadows Art, Aboriginality, and Aura We should never forget that, from the begin- ning, Aboriginal works of art are reproductions. By this we mean...

...Paul H. Clyde Philippine Freedom, 1946-1958 . By Smith Robert Aura . New York : Columbia University Press , 1958 . Pp. vii , 375 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 637 business, urban regionalism yet never explains what he intends them...

...? Is the mediated view of the world wholly dependent on spe- cific ideas of what constitutes the visual—that is, the visual as direct and sensuously immediate? And what happens to the question of aura when the concept of media, of the medium, is extended and proliferates? The focus of these questions arose from...

... possibilities. The transitory character of television programs yields the ‘‘aura’’ of artistic prod- ucts of this medium, although it is founded on the technical reproduction of original events and thus according to Walter Benjamin’s theory ought to be devoid of all aura. Arguably, the fleeting transmission...

... never explains what he intends them to mean. The index is not adequate, and the proofreading is careless. EMORY UNIVERSITY JAMES RABUN Philippine Freedom, 1946-1958. By Robert Aura Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958. Pp. vii, 375. $5.00. On July 4, 1946, the Philippines became a republic...

... is the authority of the object. One might subsume the eliminated element in the term aura and go on to say: that which withers away in the me­ chanical age of reproduction is the aura of the work of art. . . . [T]he technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making...

... and in vain. As if enlivened by a breeze, the still photograph is animated by an aura or spirit ofplace: these grounds are spooked. The photograph, taken by Dirk Reinartz in 1985, shows the site of the former death camp at Sobibor. Published in Deathly Still, a large-format book of black-and-white photographs...

... Benjamin s single most influential text (certainly his most fre­ quently cited one) is The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Repro­ duction. In that essay, and in his studies of Baudelaire, Benjamin elabor­ ated his notion of the aura of an art work and analyzed the destructive impact which techniques...

... records of the dead as visual artifacts? How are the standards for representative accuracy occlud- ing or making impossible the leaving or reading of other kinds of traces? In Benjamin’s understanding of the decay of the aura, photography plays the role of a double agent. It is the vampire of aura...

... function in a quest for authen­ ticity. Walter Benjamin worried, among other things, about the prob­ lem of authenticity in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Benjamin associated authenticity with the aura ema­ nating from the solidarity of a community directly experiencing a unique...

... in the car park, and a number of people taking pictures. Murray delivers a commentary: No one sees the barn, he says. Once you ve seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn. . . . We re not here to capture an image, we re here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura...

... interior, the Etui (case) and the overstuffed armchair, the personal trace, anthropo­ morphism, symbolism, the mystery of the aura. The popular cousin of these new barbarians is Mickey Mouse, herald of an imagination that does not rely on experience, citizen of a world in which it does not pay to have...

... about the loss of the referent, the dissolving of the object into its representations (the road signs, the photos) is delivered not with nostalgia for a lost world of the real but with joy: We re not here to capture an image, we re here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura. In between...

... the modern age’s effect on imagination, memory, feeling, perhaps even sexuality. What we discover is that one’s contact with the crowds of modern life puts what Benjamin elsewhere calls “aura,” the “unique phenomenon of distance, however close it may be,” into crisis.9 There is the “desire...

...; The Messianic Idea in Judaism; Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah (1626-1676); and Book Reviews 133 countless other standard, definitive, magisterial contributions to the scholarly domain he himself created. Those who read him know the uncanny, yet pellucid aura emanating from research that is neither...

... that these subjects have already been treated in Volume II. Moreover, as in Volume II, there is an aura of unreality, since problems of foreign relations are not treated at all. A reader at the end of Volume II might wonder whether Schlesinger accepts the interpretation of the New Deal first formulated by Basil Rauch...

... that here is the only concordance thus sur­ rounded with an aura. The story of this concordance carries us into the very heart of Shakespeare worship and of the Victorian soul itself. The product of sixteen years of happy labor, it made Mary a famous woman both in England and America. One of her admirers...

... in the era of Justinian the Great a good period for a writer who knows how to bring history to the ordinary reader. The action takes place on a grand scale, the actors seem bigger than life, there is a certain aura of mystery surrounding the central figure of the emperor, and the stakes in the game...

... . Parrhesia , no. 7 : 58 – 67 . Virno Paolo . 2010 . E così via, all'infinito: Logica e antropologia (And So Away with Infinity: Logic and Anthropology) . Turin : Bollati Boringhieri . Virno Paolo . 2011 . Convenzione e materialismo: L'unicità senza aura (Convention and Materialism...