InterCulture presents a Special Issue :

Reproducing Art: Walter Benjamin's "Work of Art" Essay Reconsidered

Patricia Allmer and John Sears, Editors
Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design
Manchester Metropolitan University

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This special issue of InterCulture features essays addressing and examining
the critical and theoretical actuality of the various versions and
translations of Walter Benjamin's seminal essay: \"The Work of Art in the
Age of Mechanical Reproduction\".

Table of contents below:

Introduction
Patricia Allmer, Manchester Metropolitan University
John Sears, Manchester Metropolitan University

Framing Pictures, Transcending Marks: Walter Benjamin's 'On Paintings, Signs
and Marks'
Andrew Benjamin, University of Technology, Sydney

After Aura: Re-reading Benjamin's Kunstwerk
Colin Lang, Yale University

Works of Artwriting: Some Legacies of Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in
the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Jennifer Way, University of North Texas

The Life and Times of Sheriff Woody: Benjamin, Baudrillard and some
'Theoretical Toys'
Graeme Gilloch, University of Lancaster

Lens Flare in the Age of Digital Production
Kirk E. Pillow, Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, D.C

Benjamin's Aura, Levine's Homage and Richter's Effect
Randall K. Van Schepen, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI

The Photographic Subversion: Benjamin, Manet and Art(istic) Reproduction
Laurens S. Weingarden, Florida State University

The Hidden and the Exposed: "One-Time Appearance" in Walter Benjamin and
Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial (a reading of Section iv of 'The Work
of Art in the Age of Its Technical Reproducibility', Second Version)
Richard J Lane, Malaspina University College

The Distractions of the Built Environment: Architecture as a Collective Work
of Art
Diane Morgan, University of Leeds

Book Review: Benjamin's Theses 'On the Concept of History'
Rajeev S. Patke, National University of Singapore