'A Response Paper On Christopher Steiner’s\r'

'Christopher Steiner’s finesseicle entitled ‘Authenticity, Repetition, and the Aesthetics of Seriality’ negotiation about the ‘mechanical re achievement of art’ at the height of technological improvement and technical proceeds nowadays.He discusses Walter Benjamin’s essay entitled ‘The educate of artifice in the Age of Mechanical rearing’ in the issue that: first, mechanical retort is non just a new form of technical production but engenders â€Å"an entirely new philosophy of production in which the work of art is emancipate” (Steiner 88); and second, that the mechanical reproduction and consumption of art makes the object glass more accessible to wider population (88).His argument, therefore, is that â€Å"to justify the genuineness of tourer art one must convey from an entirely different starting point” (89), since tourist art should be viewed as a culturally valid, authentic art.  He argues that m ass-produced art carries an authenticity, which it shares with a nonher(prenominal) mass-produced objects in the industry.What I argue, however, is that mechanical reproduction of art does not carry anymore the authenticity and validity of what a true art should beâ€that it should be an expression of views, beliefs, and culture of an individual or a number of individuals.  Objects that undergo mass production are merely ‘reproductions’ of the original item.  The true ‘art’ is in its originality.This means that, although the reproduced object is an exact encounter of the original object, it is merely a mimic and is not an expression of the self.  When it comes to being culturally valid, however, I take hold that objects that undergo mass production are, indeed, culturally valid, since it reveals a certain aspect of culture that, though reproduced once again and again, still holds the originality and the individuality that the culture and the people reflect.Art is worry what a human being is: it is a aspect of culture and society, yet it cannot be an exact restitution of the otherâ€for there is none like it.  mass-produce objects of art contain authenticity and validity in terms of culture art, but not as an individual art.Works CitedSteiner, Christopher.  â€Å"Authenticity, Repetition, and the Aesthetics of Seriality: The Work of Tourist Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”  [name of book].  Ed. [name of editor].  Place: publisher, year.  87-103.\r\n'