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Lecture Overview . Discuss Walter Benjamin's arguments in
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1. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction:Walter Benjamin, Eadweard Muybridge, and the Ashcan School
2. Lecture Overview Discuss Walter Benjamins arguments in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936)
Use Eadweard Muybridges photographs to illustrate some of Benjamins ideas
Consider the Ashcan School as an example of the new possibilities for art that Benjamin suggests
3. Walter Benjamin German Marxist literary critic Associated with the Frankfurt School Wrote The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction in 1936 Died in 1940 while attempting to escape from the Nazis