ing on the people's realization of it and provoking as much their response to it as demanding to be discussed, which goes together with a collective reception of a work of art by an increasing number of people at the same time. The same way as a formerly magic instrument was later recognized as a work of art, the artistic function of today's art with the emphasis on its value by being on view may later, as he suggests, be recognized as incidental , i.e. in favor of a social or political function. With the use of new media in the field of art he sees its work in a totally new context which introduces and even requires some more determining components such as captions giving photographs a certain meaning which could be turned into something totally different by a different title the same way as each single picture in a movie seems to be prescribed by the sequence of all preceding ones. That is why he sees, for instance, a painting as a whole picture in which the spectator can abandon himself to his associations and be absorbed by the canvas for hours whereas the movie scenes change before his eye was able to graspe one, so restricting the spectator to a smaller variety of interpretations as he lacks the time to be invited to contemplation. Furthermore he thinks of the movie act

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Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin, mechanical reproduction, means mechanical, means mechanical reproduction, age mechanical reproduction, Age Mechanical, cult value art, especially film, cult value, value art, field art, exhibition value, age mechanical,
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