Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
"Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism."
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"Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism."
"الرسم، بطبيعته الجوهرية، لا يتيح تلقيًا جماعيًا آنيًا، على النحو الذي يتيحه الفيلم في عصرنا هذا. ومع أن جهودًا بُذلت لعرض اللوحات على الجماهير في الأروقة الفنية والصالونات، فإن نمط التلقي هذا لا يمنح العامة سبيلًا لتنظيم استجابتهم وتوجيهها. وهكذا، فإن الجمهور عينه الذي يتفاعل بروح تقدمية مع الكوميديا التهريجية، يُبدي حتمًا موقفًا رجعيًا تجاه السريالية."
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
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