Week 6 Response
Submitted by turand04 on Mon, 2007-02-12 18:11.Week 6
I had a bit of trouble understanding some of the sentences in this piece, though it's primarily because there were large amounts of technical language used.
One thing I did catch onto however, was the way Walter Benjamin verbally drew a timeline of manmade art creations, explaining each new era and its artistic discoveries. With each advance, however, the next one came faster, stamping to woodcut, lithography to photography; the way we advance is almost exponential in nature. By advancing so far and so fast we've come all the way from stamping bronze coins to HDTV and Tivo, but if you think of advance as a statistical graph, the curve starts gradual then archs upwards suddenly, the main question I have is what happens when we finally reach the top of the line, do we stop advancing in that time or does art itself become worthless and completely reproduceable by anyone. When we finally get to the point that anything is reproduceable, what will become new or fine art?
-Andrew Turner
