As I was reading the article i discovered a paragraph that described the entire article in a neat little package and I believe it is very helpful for everyone to read it in this short concise package in order to fully understand the ideas being conveyed.
An analysis of art in the age of mechanical reproduction must do justice to these relationships, for they lead
us to an all-important insight: for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the
work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced
becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility. From a photographic negative, for example, one can
make any number of prints; to ask for the “authentic” print makes no sense. But the instant the criterion
of authenticity ceases to be applicable to artistic production, the total function of art is reversed. Instead
of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice—politics.
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