Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction – Summary and Review

Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction – Summary and Review

As I read the summary and review of Walter Benjamin I thought this statement was very deep, " Dialectical materialism holds that social changes are the result of power struggles that are present in all forms of material existence. When taking this line of thought to the field of art, Benjamin attempts at explaining how technological changes influnenced art and how these relations might have social significance".   I agree because art and technology is used in everything, in the early years propaganda posters were used by the Germans and the United States during war time, and now we have internet to filtrate the same propaganda all over the world. The social significance (art/technology helped to bring about), the internet, confirms Walter Benjamin's theory, with all the social media available today.