Crimp Response
Just like Benjamin, I was not at all thrilled about reading this essay. I did enjoy a few of Crimp’s thoughts on art though. I agree profoundly with Goldstein’s quote of, “We only experience reality throughout the pictures we make of it.” It is true that without photography people’s lives would be very different. Art has and always will be in people’s lives.
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NEED THESE!
Source: comatose--but-audible
Walter Benjamin XIV - Epilogue
This will be a short summary seeing as I did not understand a word Benjamin wrote in these last two chapters, but it was a little better than the past couple of chapters. In chapters XIV to the Epilogue. From what I did understand Benjamin is comparing film and art. I do not like his view of films because he believes that, “a past time for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures who are consumed by their worries, a spectacle which requires no concentration and presupposes no intelligence, which kindles no light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of someday becoming a ‘star’ in Los Angeles”. Even though art work has more of any aura that needs a special concentration, a movie can be just as powerful. The movies will reach all audiences no matter what social class. Movies use many different elements to portray what they want, while an artwork only has one or two elements. After this point, I was lost. I know I will understand better once in class when we discuss everything.
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