Roland Barthe's Death of the Author from Image, Music, Text, 1977
This first article that I read seemed to be about this situation about how every time we read a piece of literature that the author some how "dies"...not quite sure what Barthe means but that......
Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936
This second article that I read was about the reproduction of art and that ranged from print to painting and from photography to film. The author also discussed how the process of mass reproduction has evolved over time and afterwards were the value of the reproduction stand. There was also quite a bit about the artwork and their auras...but I don't think I quite understand the idea of the whole aura thing...
Now for a question and a thought that when through my head after reading the first article .... If someone was to look at my work when I was done with it, would I also "die"?
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