...did not require a known author to enjoy authority. As Walter Benjamin writes of the unique object, The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all...testimony to the history which it has experienced. Since the historical testimony rests on the authenticity, the former, too, is jeopardized by reproduction...

...namely, its authenticity - is interfered with whereas no natural object is vulnerable on that score. The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all...testimony to the history which it has experienced. Since the historical testimony rests on the authenticity', the former, too, is jeopardized by reproduction...

...the leader fell; this is the actual pen used to sign the law" (1989:14). Walter Benjamin says that "[t]he authenticity of a thing is the essence of all...testimony to the history which it has experienced" (1968:221). For an object to be "authentic" it must be an original (presumably not a simulacrum) and...

...is "the prerequisite" of the artworks "authenticity."34 "The authenticity ot a thing," he explains, "is the essence of all that is transmissible from...testimony to the history which it has experienced." Effectively, mechamcal reproduction "detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition" (from...

...is interfered with whereas no natural object is vulnerable on that score. The authenticity of a thmg is the essence of all that is transmissible from its...duration to its testimony to the history which it has expeoenced. Since the historical testimony rests on the authenticity, the former, too, is jeopardized...

...namely, its authenticity — is interfered with whereas no natural object is vulnerable on that score. The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all...testimony to the history which it has experienced. Since the historical testimony rests on the authenticity, the former, too, is jeopardized by reproduction...

...of its 'aura' by which Benjamin means its authenticity, its attachment to the domain of tradition: The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all...duration to its testimony to the history which it has experienced.2 The aura of an object compels attention. Whether a work of art or natural landscape,...

...the loss of the work's material endurance, as well as its ability to be a witness to human history: The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all...from its substantive duration to its testimony to history which it has experienced. Since the historical testimony rests on the authenticity, the former,...

...describes aura as an object's "most sensitive nucleus — namely, its authenticity," and goes on to say "the Authenticity of a thing is the essence of all that is transmissible." Benjamin uses as an example the mountain which casts a shadow over the person looking at it, once this...

...reproduction technology become especially apparent in art's loss of aura, in its loss of authenticity: "The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all...testimony to the history which it has experienced." The reproduction of a work of art "detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By...