Book · 1955 · Nonfiction

Illuminations

Name: Illuminations
Author: Walter Benjamin

Mariner Books · 304 pages

★ 7.1 editorial score

Benjamin asks what photography did to art and answers that a work loses its aura once anyone can copy it. Elsewhere history appears as an angel blown backward, staring at the wreckage.

Genre

Philosophy Critical theory Cultural criticism

Medium

Essays

Subject

Mass culture Aesthetics History Modernity

Time

1955Depicts 20th century

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