L’art de masse pour transformer la société ? Apports adorniens à la thèse de Walter Benjamin
(2018) Revue Proteus – Cahiers des théories de l’art — Vol. 13, p. 87-94 (2018)
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Printz, Antoine 
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- (en) The development of mechanical reproduction brought about mass art. Without spatio-temporal limits, the work of art has become an object of massive diffusion, but at the cost of the loss of the aura. This is Benjamin's well-known thesis. Of course, cultural theorists such as Adorno and Horkheimer also subscribe to this theory. Their critical ambition nevertheless compel them to think about the consequence of such a democratization of the work. From now on, can the work constitute a vector of social change and emancipation? Is the work only the redoubling of the ideological power of the counter-revolutionary forces? This article will focus on the theory dealing with the way the technical era work freed itself from its cult dimension. Then, this paper will consider the antipodic evaluations of Benjamin and of Adorno depending on the transformational political potential of capitalist society.
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Printz, A. (2018). L’art de masse pour transformer la société ? Apports adorniens à la thèse de Walter Benjamin. Revue Proteus – Cahiers des théories de l’art, 13, 87-94. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/53293 (Original work published 2018)