TY  - GEN
A1  - Shields, Ross
T1  - The work of art in the age of Trump
T2  - ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
N2  - In the age of mechanical reproducibility, the 'aura' surrounding works of art undergoes a crisis. The contemporary relevance of Walter Benjamin's thesis - in its societal, aesthetic, and media-theoretical significance - is illustrated by former U.S. president Donald Trump's purported ownership of "Les deux soeurs" ("Two Sisters"), also known as "Sur la terrasse" ("On the Terrace"), by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Journalist Mark Bowden, who caught a glimpse of the painting when he was invited to Trump's jet in 1997, describes the event in an article for Vanity Fair: "He showed off the gilded interior of his plane - calling me over to inspect a Renoir on its walls, beckoning me to lean in closely to see … what? The luminosity of the brush strokes? The masterly use of color? No. The signature. 'Worth $10 million,' he told me." Of course, this is the attitude that one might expect from a real-estate mogul turned art collector (although not from a future president). In ignorance of both form and content - to say nothing of their unity - the painting is reduced to its sheer exchange value, concentrated in the signature guaranteeing its authenticity.
T3  - ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin - 15.02.2021 
KW  - Benjamin, Walter
KW  - Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
KW  - Authentizität
KW  - Kunst
KW  - Aura <Philosophie>
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/65779
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-657794
UR  - https://www.zflprojekte.de/zfl-blog/2021/02/15/ross-shields-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-trump/
SN  - 2748-5072
VL  - 2021
IS  - 15.02.2021
SP  - 1
EP  - 5
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
CY  - Berlin
ER  -