The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Author: Benjamin, Walter, Underwood, J.A.

Theory of art

Published on 7 August 2008 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Great Ideas' series.

Paperback | 128 pages, No illustrations
180 x 112 x 8 | 84g

One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.

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