Re:The black market in stolen antiquities on Facebook
by pampa on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:59AM
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This topic has been explored since the advent of photography and cinema. When advances in technology allowed to produce indistinguishable copies.
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), by Walter Benjamin [1] is a good starting point on this topic. He was the first to ask what actually constitutes a work of art, if you can cheaply mass produce copies of it.
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), by Walter Benjamin [1] is a good starting point on this topic. He was the first to ask what actually constitutes a work of art, if you can cheaply mass produce copies of it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...