Pathways to a materialist theory of art in Walter Benjamin

• Autor(a) principal: Ramos, Fernanda
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Rampim, João Lopes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Artefilosofia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufop.br/raf/article/view/1903
• topic: Materialism; Art; Technique; Walter Benjamin.; materialismo; arte; técnica; Walter Benjamin

The present work intends to analyse the specificity of the materialistic theory of art according to Walter Benjamin. To do so, we take the essays “Eduard Fuchs, the collector and the historian”, from 1937, and the second version of “The work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility”, written between 1935 and 1936,as points of reference. We also attempt to approach the influence of the art historian Aloïs Riegl in Benjamin’s thought, for, as we see it, this influence plays a decisive role in the elaboration of his theory. Furthermore, we emphasize the primacy of the object and the category of expression as central points in such elaboration. The text culminates in an approach to Benjamin’s concept of “second technique”, which we believe proves the effectiveness of Benjamin’s method in relation to the investigation on cinema.