LAW YIK HANG ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN - WALTER BENJAMIN’S HOUSE BACKGROUND Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, historical materialism, and Western Marxism. artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art’ Benjamin used that thought as the basis for what became one of his most famous essays, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. It served as a foundation for the evolution of thought that emerged from the Postmodern school philosophy.
CONCEPT THE VALUES OF THE REPRODUCTION OF WALTER BENJAMIN He stressed the destructive and renew of object, the pieces of experience. We can use a newly sight on the values of artwork. That means the relationship of contradiction. In the history, the artwork was unique. The reproduction of art work had developed, and had got the similarity of artwork, but the values of artwork had changed. The values of artwork contented nobles, class, traditional culture. Under the reproduction of artwork, the values of artwork got more freedom, development, released and the real values of population of artwork might be come from the reproduction of artwork. SITE
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